Re: XFS and journalling filesystems

Dan Koren (dkoren@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com)
Thu, 27 May 1999 12:11:48 -0700

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Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > journalling filesystem will be opensourced this summer) what is "the
> > panel's" view of the continuing devlopment of ext3/whatever the linux
> > jfs will be called. Should we adopt XFS as the defacto replacement for
> > ext2?
>
> XFS is 50,000 odd lines of mainframe class filing system code.

You're understimating it... :)

> Its unlikely to be the ideal fs for a small appliance or a
> desktop at home even if it kicks butt as a server fs.
>
> Alan

Quite the contrary. The fewer disk spindles on a system, the
greater the performance gains from XFS' very sophisticated
i/o scheduling. In addition, XFS code is layered neatly
enough that unwanted features/options can be left out if
one so wants.

thx,

Dan Koren Dan.Koren@sgi.com
Engineering Manager, File Systems phone: (USA) 650-933-3678
Silicon Graphics, Inc. pager: (USA) 888-769-0874
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Mountain View, CA 94043-1351 fax: (USA) 650-933-3542

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