On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Kurt Wall wrote: > Scribbling feverishly on April 27, Glenn Williams managed to emit: > > 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. > > XFS is a port from SGI's IRIX and has many years of use behind it, > which does not apply to ext3, Reiser, and the other new Linux > filesystems. XFS is the de facto standard for high-performance > computing, especially the graphics rendering farms. To put it > briefly, it is the only one with a track record. JFS is close, but my > understanding, which could be incorrect, is that the port of JFS > still has some issues.
A common misconception is that JFS is based on IBM's AIX filesystem. But in reality, its based on OS/2's filesystem, which makes it a lot less impressive (IMO). -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
