On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Collins Richey wrote: > FYI. > > >From time to time we have threads about the use of various filesystems (usually > degrades rapidly to "my fs is better than your fs"). > > I just happened to be reviewing the current Gentoo Handbook - a work in > progress, and I noted the following recommendation for XFS (a favorite of many > on this list). > > 4.i. Creating Filesystems > > ... [ other fs descriptions] > > "XFS is a filesystem with metadata journaling that is fully supported > under Gentoo Linux's xfs-sources kernel. It comes with a robust feature-set and > is optimized for scalability. We only recommend using this filesystem on Linux > systems with high-end SCSI and/or fibre channel storage and a uninterruptible > power supply. Because XFS aggressively caches in-transit data in RAM, improperly > designed programs (those that don't take proper precautions when writing files > to disk and there are quite a few of them) can lose a good deal of data if the > system goes down unexpectedly." > > ... [ other fs desciptions ] > > It is interesting that this recommendation is only present for XFS among the > journaled filesystem choices.
Its also interesting that the documentation that you've referenced hasn't been well updated in over a year. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
