Request comparison of relative strenths of thevariousjournaling file systems

[Andrew Mathews]

Bob Hemus wrote:
> 
> 
> Collins Richey wrote:
> 
>> On 06 Apr 2003 22:40:32 -0400
>> Mel Roman <melroman at canada.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>
>> To summarize what most people on this list have posted over the last few
>> months:
>>
>> 1. Most people prefer XFS.  XFS has the one drawback that it is not part
>> of the 2.4.x kernel distribution; <snip>
>>
> 
> I think on the Mandrake 8.2   I tried to install on my old Pentium, 
> there was an
> option to format the disk for for the XFS file system.  The Mandrake 
> was/is 2.4.19.
> I couldn't get the Mandrake to work.  Don't I see XFS go by when I start 
> my RH 7.3?
> 
> Bob
> 

You're seeing xfs for x font server. XFS isn't a service, but xfs is. 
<g> What do you mean by "couldn't get it to work"? What error messages?
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