Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Re: [MLUG] Anyone got mad C skills ?

[Dave Lloyd <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I haven't used Reiser, but I can tell you why (in my completely biased 
opinion) I use xfs.

1. Years of development -- XFS has been under development and continuously
   improving for six or seven years now.  
2. Proven performance -- XFS is used daily in high-performance environments,
   e. g., petabytes of storage, hundreds of fibre channel loops, hundreds
   of CPUs, hundreds of I/O busses.  XFS is optimized for moving around
   huge chunks of data very quickly.
3. Scalability -- You can have individual files up to several terabytes (I
   can't remember the exact number, but it's more zeroes than I care to
   think of) and filesystems to several exabytes.  

So, will it buy you a lot on the desktop?  Well, no more fscking after 
yanking the power, more reliable reads and writes since it's a journaled
filesystem, etc.  Plus, you get xfsdump/xfsrestore, *great* utilities 
for backing up and restoring filesystems.  I used to use them to clone
disks in the labs and they work great (hell, I still use them all the 
time in my job).  What XFS really shines at is huge filesystems on systems
that do huge I/O (think a 256P or 512P or even 1024P system at NASA Ames
doing computational fluid dyanmics studies).  That capability will 
greatly aid Linux in the future as it tries to move into the technical
computing market.

So, use it.  It's good for Linux.

Dave Lloyd

PS Neil -- I want to see that XFS shrine.  I should try and score you an 
   SGI/Linux poster for it.


On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Michael wrote:

> How's it compare to Reiser (and other similar systems now avail)?
> 
> *^*^*^*
> Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
> http://www.kavlon.com
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> On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Neil Bradshaw wrote:
> 
> > I worship XFS. I even have a shrine in my apartment with SGI logos and a
> > giant XFS on the wall.
> > 
> > Okay, not really, but XFS is great. I was running it here at work after
> > Rick said something about it on the list. Why I was amused for so long at
> > killing the power and rebooting without forced checks I do not know :)
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Neil Bradshaw
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