-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 William Gallafent wrote: > Thanks for the detailed explanations and discussion. > > Out of interest, is XFS also under consideration? I don't > have experience of either ext3 nor XFS on my personal or > work machines, but I've heard many good things about XFS > from friends, and from reading comparisons. > > I'd be interested in knowing what your current feelings are > regarding the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two.
Technically, XFS is a good file system, but my primary concern with it is one of support. XFS is far more complex than ext3, and it weighs in at over 5 times the lines of code that ext3 does. Beyond that, there is far more community adoption and support behind ext3. Inside SUSE, we just don't have the engineering experience with it and that means more time away from fixing other bugs and implementing new features. This proposal is only to change the default file system. Ext3 does what most users need well. It's well tested, is fairly easy to understand, and is extremely well supported by the community. Users who have workloads that require, or are even just curious about, other file systems, are always welcome to use them. I'm not looking to, or at all interested in, removing file systems from the list of possibilities. ReiserFS will still be available, as will XFS. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFCXaELPWxlyuTD7IRAlTQAJ4kcTR5AwgEzHJqbOvSPG6ZcZjpqgCcC/ZO eL5ZncH/1TpL8H0b7m3os7M= =ZsJ3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
