XFS

[Kurt Wall]

Scribbling feverishly on April 27, Glenn Williams managed to emit:
> Hi, Group:
> 
> Last week someone said (Kurt Wall?) he prefers XFS over ext3, reiserfs
> and possibly others.  But I didn't see any reasons given for the
> preference.

XFS is a port from SGI's IRIX and has many years of use behind it,
which does not apply to ext3, Reiser, and the other new Linux
filesystems. XFS is the de facto standard for high-performance
computing, especially the graphics rendering farms. To put it
briefly, it is the only one with a track record. JFS is close, but my
understanding, which could be incorrect, is that the port of JFS
still has some issues.

That said, I like and use ext3 here. In a mission-critical production
environment, however, I'd use XFS.

Kurt
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