Filesystem article up, thank you all!

2008-06-10 Thread Thomas King
Folks, My article answering Henry Newman is up. If you wish to clarify or correct anything in the article, please do so in the comments. http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/103802/index.html Thanks! Tom King -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of

Re: Future Linux filesystems

2008-06-04 Thread Thomas King
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 09:37:27AM -0500, Thomas King wrote: >> > All the issues he complains about actually are solved by XFS, and XFS >> actually >> does better in >> > exactly these environments than either zfs on Solaris or JFS2 on AIX. >> > >>

Block size limited to Linux page size?

2008-06-03 Thread Thomas King
To fill in one piece of information, I'm reading the maximum block size can be limited by the Linux page size, 4K on x86. Is this true in btrfs? Thanks! Tom King -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo i

Re: Future Linux filesystems

2008-06-03 Thread Thomas King
> All the issues he complains about actually are solved by XFS, and XFS actually does better in > exactly these environments than either zfs on Solaris or JFS2 on AIX. > > I asked the author that question and he states XFS is actually a pretty good answer to most of those issues but believes it st

Future Linux filesystems

2008-06-02 Thread Thomas King
Folks, I am writing an article for Linux.com to answer Henry Newman's article at http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/sans/features/article.php/3749926 concerning Linux and massive filesystems. Is there someone here that can field some questions about BTRFS? Thanks! Tom King -- To unsubscribe fr