Request comparison of relative strenths of thevariousjournaling file systems

Collins Richey erichey2
Mon May 17 11:46:23 PDT 2004


On Tue, 08 Apr 2003 19:15:23 -0700
"Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> On 04/08/03 18:23, Collins Richey wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> actually, if you're talking about Andrea's pre & rc releases, they are
> 
> also supported via a cvs checkout of the XFS codebase.
> 

Thanks, that's news to me.
-- 
Collins - Slack 9.0 EXT3


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