Request comparison of relative strenths of the various journaling file systems

[Kurt Wall]

An unnamed Administration source, Mel Roman, wrote:

[XFS is viable]

% Based on everything I've heard, I think I probably
% want to go with XFS.  One things that's been pointed
% out here is that I'll need to patch my kernel to 
% support XFS.  In my experiments to date with 
% Mandrake, I had left my / partition as ext2 and made
% the others all ReiserFS (so that the ReiserFS 
% partitions would be supported through modules).

It's quite straightforward to patch the kernel with
the XFS patches and to build the needed utilities.

% I guess it's time I learned to compile my own
% kernels.  Like everything else, I suppose it's 
% easy once you know how.  I've never bothered to
% do it up to this point (I'm an application developer,
% not an OS techie).  Would anyone recommend a good
% resource to guide me in my first attempts?  I'd 
% rather avoid any unnecesary blunders.

Llama had a good write-up on XFS:
http://www.kurtwerks.com/sxs/administration/xfs.html

The SxS has a number of Steps on kernel compilation, too.

Kurt
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