Glenn Williams wrote: > > Hi, Group: > > Last week someone said (Kurt Wall?) he prefers XFS over ext3, reiserfs > and possibly others. But I didn't see any reasons given for the > preference. > > I can (and will) read some info about XFS on the Internet, but I am more > interested in hearing reasons for that choice from group memebers. > > Anyone? > > TIA > > Regards, > > Glenn > > Glenn Williams - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Registered Linux User # 135678 - since 1994 > > _______________________________________________
Personally, I find XFS to be faster than ext2, ext3, reiserfs or jfs. I've run tests using mass file read/writes and performance measurement tools such as bonnie, and XFS is consistently the winner. It really kicks as$ at raw I/O performance. It's the result of years of experience from the mindshare at SGI (formerly Silicon Graphics). SGI has used XFS as the basis for IRIX since 5.3. (iirc) Remember that SGI has been *the* defacto standard for high performance graphics processing for many years. Most of the computer generated graphics you see in any popular movie was created on an SGI machine, be it a lowly Indy, or a complete Onyx rendering farm. Only in the last year or so have they been moving to a linux based systems, and that's only because recently a version of Maya was released for linux. I have literally never had an XFS system that experienced data corruption. I can't say the same for any of the others. For a better explaination see: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/features.html For the FAQ's see: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html For a downloadable iso image that you can boot from (requires Red Hat 7.2 cd's for remaining programs) see: ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/Release-1.0.2/installer/i386/RH7.2-SGI-XFS-1.0.2a.iso Of course you can also get XFS distro independent. Lonni has an excellent SxS on this. -- Andrew Mathews ------------------------------------------------------------ 4:50pm up 7 days, 20:26, 9 users, load average: 1.13, 1.04, 1.01 ------------------------------------------------------------ A very intelligent turtle Found programming UNIX a hurdle The system, you see, Ran as slow as did he, And that's not saying much for the turtle. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
