Hi, Burns: I am duly impressed. Thanks.
Regards, Glenn Glenn Williams - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User # 135678 - since 1994 ----- Original Message ----- From: "burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 10:16 PM Subject: Re: XFS > On April 27, 2002 01:37 pm, 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? > > > > I have met the young Danish gentleman who did the XFS conversion to Linux for > SGI. To say I was impressed would be an understatement. If I could figure a > way that CGI could use him, I'd hire him in a heartbeat. > > He works in Ottawa, here, and he spoke at our LUG, giving us an absolutely > compelling two hour Cook's tour of all the file systems including the > strengths and weaknesses of each. He knows personally the author/editors of > each of the other file systems and, based upon what I have seen and heard, I > would be extremely surprised if XFS wasn't rock solid. > > He described IDE as only suitable for home use... and then only if you don't > care if you lose your data - he was a SCSI man all the way, which is > consistent with best industry practices anyway. I got the impression that he > viewed ReisersFS as a halfway measure not suitable for enterprise use. He had > some issues with the current iteration/port of JFS, saying that it wasn't all > there for Linux yet. I can't recall his view of ext3. > > -- > burns > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
