Server Distros

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 04:00:40PM -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>I think they need to update the instructios!

I'm the last person in the world to talk about keeping web sites current.
We had the first commercial web site in Washington State, and some pages
probably haven't been updated since they were created.

>> On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 12:40:22PM -0700, Collins wrote:
>>>On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:40:06 -0800 Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com>
>>>wrote:
>> 
>> I think it was in the installation instructions.  I had started
>> with a reference to the SGI site, then followed their links of
>> systems that support XFS in the distribitions to gentoo.  My next
>> step was to start looking to see what's necessary to install it.
>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
>> 
>> Looking at this, I find statements like:
>> 
>>   ``XFS is a filesystem with metadata journaling that is fully supported
>>   under Gentoo Linux's xfs-sources kernel, but be warned that it is highly
>>   unstable at this time.''
>> 
>>   ``Please be careful with XFS; this filesystem has a tendency to fry lots
>>   of data if the system crashes or you lose power. Originally, it seemed
>>   like a promising filesystem but it now appears that this tendency to
>>   lose data is a major achilles' heel.''
>> 
>>>I can't argue with the fact the XFS comes from a long, successful
>>>commercial background.  My personal preference is to wait for formal
>>>adoption in the kernel (2.6), since I don't need the additional hassle
>>>of dealing with patches outside the main kernel tree.
>> 
>> My feelings exactly.
>> 
>> Bill
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