Request comparison of relative strenths of the variousjournaling file systems

Collins Richey erichey2
Mon May 17 11:46:22 PDT 2004


On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 09:57:16 -0400 (EDT)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Collins Richey wrote:
> > If, however, you are wanting to build a server, you don't care much
> > about keeping up with the latest in kernels, so XFS would be a fine
> > choice, and most of the professionals on the list who bet their
> > reputations on their servers seem to opt for that approach.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by this, as XFS has been, and is available
> as a patch for each released official kernel, both 2.4.x & 2.6.x. 
> I've been running it on 2.4.20 since 2.4.20 was released.
> 

Yes, underline "released versions of the kernel."  Since some are
interested in running the prepatch versions, they have to wait.  Not a
problem unless you want or need to be an early user of the new
features/fixes.


-- 
Collins - Slack 9.0 EXT3


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