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SubjectRe: XFS and journalling filesystems


Alan Cox wrote:

> > journalling filesystem will be opensourced this summer) what is "the
> > panel's" view of the continuing devlopment of ext3/whatever the linux
> > jfs will be called. Should we adopt XFS as the defacto replacement for
> > ext2?
>
> XFS is 50,000 odd lines of mainframe class filing system code. Its unlikely
> to be the ideal fs for a small appliance or a desktop at home even if
> it kicks butt as a server fs.
>
> Alan

I was just browsing the BeOS site and that too claims to have a 64-bit
journalling filesystem. Perhaps that would be better suited for home systems if
only there were more details available for it...

--
Adam Lock



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