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[Net Llama!]

As others mentioned, this _has_ to be very badly outdated.

On 12/24/02 12:34, Bill Campbell 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.''

Unstable how??  My XFS servers are the most stable boxes i have.

> 
>   ``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.''

Huh?  Sorry but my experiences with XFS are the exact opposite of this. 
  THe box looses power, and XFS recovers gracefully, and you're back up 
with only 2 or 3 seconds of recovery time.

>>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.
> 
> We've been using ext3 for a while, after having some very bad experiences
> with reiserfs a year or so ago on my laptop.  The gentoo site has some very
> positive remarks about Reiser now, so I may reconsider that, at least for
> my development machines which tend to lots of relatively small files.

Seeing how flawed Gentoo's comments are about XFS, i'd be hesitant to 
believe anything they say.

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