XFS filesystem revisited

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Yes, Gentoo is conservative and that's good but at this point XFS has been 
in the field for a long time and has worked well.   I personally feel the 
Gentoo people don't have a lot of experience with XFS so they just made 
some comments that are not all that factual (as Kurt Wall pointed out) - or 
maybe a better choice of words is that they aren't familiar and wrote what 
they thought was correct.  Gentoo has not been a fan of XFS since I started 
using it.  However, I spent a lot of time in this forum watching the 
threads on the various file systems and the experiences people have had.  
The result was that I chose XFS to get a file system that could put itself 
back together and not take a million hours to do it.  Lonnie and Kurt have 
used it a lot and done stress testing on it - real stress testing <G> - and 
XFS works well.



Collins Richey wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:47:08 -0500 "Brett I. Holcomb"
> <brettholcomb at charter.net> wrote:
> 
>> Collins, I get the feeling that the Gentoo people are not very interested
>> in XFS and they don't want us using it - although this doc is better than
>> the previous one in which they discourged us from using it.  I think they
> 
> Good to hear positive comments.  On the other hand, data reported on
> gentoo usually has a factual basis, i.e. not crafted from whole cloth, so
> somebody must have had rather unusual experience(s) with the product.
> 
> BTW, let me emphasize, I'm neither a fan of nor opposed to XFS.
> 
> Gentoo tends to be fairly conservative with their recommendations
> (example: they do not recommend gentoo for a production server, which has
> certainly not stopped
> many users who contentedly run gentoo servers).  The same may well apply
> to XFS which works well except under whatever unusual circumstances the
> documenters know.
> 
> The other possibility, as Lonnie suggested, is that they based the
> recommendation on an early version of XFS.
> 

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