Re: Journaling File Sstem Question

[Hans Reiser]

Steve Lord wrote:

> Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
> > Concerning JFS vs REISERFS vs XFS...
> >
> > Which would one use for stability?
> >
> > I realize XFS has been in use probably longer than the other two on 
> > SGI's, but in Linux it was only recently merged into the 2.4.xx kernel.
> >
> > However, ReiserFS has been in the 2.4 kernel since the early 2.4.x 
> > series, JFS on the other hand is somewhere in the middle.
>
>
> XFS was out there for a couple of years before it was merged. XFS was
> out there before reiserfs was merged, we first released against 2.3.43
> from my memory.

Sorry to quibble, but ReiserFS was out there from before ReiserFS was 
merged also...;-) and well before 2.3.43....

> There is a timeline here:
>
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/news.html
>
> XFS went a lot of places before it went into the 2.4 kernel, it has been
> in 2.6 for over a year for starters.

XFS is a great filesystem.
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