On Tue Jan 29, 2002 at 01:14:04PM -0800, Bryan B Whitehead wrote: > I run XFS on about 20-30+ linux machines. Never have any problems. Our > main reason for using XFS was RFS seems to always have some type of > problem. I got sick of it... Also, we cannot backup RFS partitions as > there is NO dump/restore for the FS (maybe now they do?)
[...] I have to admit I use reiserfs almost exclusively... it's been absolutely rock solid for me. I've played a little with XFS and even less with ext3, but from what I've seen I really dislike ext3... seems to have the same limitations as ext2 (I was asked to fsck it after I turned the machine off without shutting down... I thought the journal was supposed to deal with that sort of thing). Anyways, I agree with some of the limitations of reiserfs... I don't care too much about the lack of dump/restore... I never use it. NFS over reiserfs works great now... I have no issues with NFS+reiserfs anymore since 8.1. I'm not even too concerned about speed... I mean, if xfs is blazing fast compared to reiserfs, I'd switch in a heartbeat, but if it's marginally faster, then I wouldn't worry. However, my biggest beef with reiserfs was the lack of quota support. So two questions since I'm too busy to go hunting myself right now and you seem to know quite a bit about xfs: 1) Does it support f/s quotas? 2) Is it now in the stock kernel (ie. if I download from kernel.org, do I need to do any patches to make it work with xfs)? I've heard about XFS acl's and such that are supposed to make using Samba really sweet... do these same acl's (of which I know nothing) work on the local f/s? Ie. can I use xfs acl's to arbitrarily make a file read-only even from root? Thanks for any info... -- MandrakeSoft Security, OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD Current Linux kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk uptime: 6 days 22 hours 7 minutes.
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