Re: XFS

Hi,


On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 04:18:51AM +0300, Raimo Koski wrote:
> Pasi Pirhonen wrote:
> 
> >But NFS-server being still critcal part a when mainframe emulator
> >(hercules) is runnig a month for 'a respin', one is not able to make
> >NFS unavailable :)
> 
> Not joking, is it that slow? A month means it is about 20 times slower 
> than the HW it runs on.

Why would i be? I do think (from the memory) that for single athlon64
3200+ the respin of whole codebase takes some 3-4 weeks. compiling gcc
alone takes at least two days.

> 
> 
> >I saw the rant on nahant list too and was tempted to say 'We, Tao Linux
> >do support XFS', but it's not place for stupid things like that.
> 
> Why not ReiserFS? I have been quite happy with it and it is in the 
> unsupported kernel package. Much less hassle. I tested all journalled 
> filesystems again about a year ago and performance wise XFS and Reiser 
> were about as good. JFS was dissapointing because it couldn't handle big 
> directories. It died when there were over 80 000 files (or something 
> similar, it was a year ago.), so it can't be used. The only thing Reiser 
> lacks is ACL support, which could have some relevance if I had any 
> wintendo machines.
> 
> 

I have bad personal experiences with it. And there are lot of other
people that seems to have bad experiences too.

Seeing the diskcussion (once again) at lkml about the ReiserFS4 won't
make it any better. 

Maybe that suits someone - i don't want it.



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