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
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
Collins, I get the feeling that the Gentoo people are not very interested
in XFS and they don't want us using it - although this doc is better than
the previous one in which they discourged us from using it. I think they
should have the journaling warning on all the journalling systems or
Consuming 1.4K bytes, Collins Richey blathered:
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).
Well, my FS *is* better than your FS, but I digress. ;-)
[Gentoo description of XFS shortcomings snipped]
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:47:08 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Collins, I get the feeling that the Gentoo people are not very interested
in XFS and they don't want us using it - although this doc is better than
the previous one in which they discourged us from using it. I
Yes, Gentoo is conservative and that's good but at this point XFS has been
in the field for a long time and has worked well. I personally feel the
Gentoo people don't have a lot of experience with XFS so they just made
some comments that are not all that factual (as Kurt Wall pointed out) -
