> On Thu, 20 May 1999, David Weinehall wrote:
>
> > Slashdot does have its uses... I read there just a couple of hours ago
> > that SGI has/intends to opensource XFS. That'd pretty much solve our need
> > for a fast Journaling filesystem, I think.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> I am getting slightly worried about this discussion. Often it is said that
> we need a journaling filesystem, either ext3 or xfs (assuming they get the
> license right). But why _or_?
>
> Why not ext3 _and_ xfs and let the users choose?
One of the nice things about open-source code and such is that you
don't have to go reinventing the wheel in general, and I guess there is some
concern that if XFS has everything ext3 was planning to have, why develop
both? Of course, it depends on the licenses, and if/when xfs actually shows
up and such.
Also, this is somewhat of a distribution issue, it's kind of a
question of what is going to become the de-facto standard in the future,
which is actually something the distributions are probably going to decide,
and the high-end users who know enough to pick the fs they want. :)
Stephen
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