Re: XFS

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Pasi Pirhonen wrote:

> I am actually _very happy_ if you 'start beating' the XFS. More people
> willing to do so, more like it can be said to be stable. 

Well, I'll be beating XFS for this particular kernel. I have used XFS 
for about 2 years now and I'm very happy with it, but not on any of 
the "very important servers" that I'm taking care of. Especially, I 
have not used it much with NFS.

> I have been very moderate with this and only XFS itself is enabled as in
> 
> CONFIG_XFS_FS=m
> # CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA is not set

Arrgh, then I'll have to rebuild it. I would like to have QUOTA 
enabled as well (and funny given today's post on nahant-beta list...)

> I am not in progress of converting the / or /usr or /var to XFS, but i
> really like having my NFS-exports as XFS for just pure performance and
> no problems with 'sudden I/O stalls'.

Same here.

> The problem being that some of these 'extra features' would likely to be
> needed as in 'installation media'. That efectively makes it impossible
> to keep those as in /contrib/

For XFS it might not be that stringent, but for the devices...

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