XFS

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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.

A common misconception is that JFS is based on IBM's AIX filesystem.  But
in reality, its based on OS/2's filesystem, which makes it a lot less
impressive (IMO).


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