XFS filesystem revisited

[Net Llama!]

On 11/20/03 20:12, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> 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.

Indeed.  I've got several terrabytes worth of production data on XFS.  My 
job & my sanity are dependent on it.  It has never let me down.

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