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From: Chris Moxon <drmox@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 21:14:33 +0100
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I downloaded XFS prerelease iso cd and used it to install redhat7.1
I am currently running XFS on ide disks made by fuji

Comments:

I find XFS to be very reliable, and provide very fast access to IDE disks- much faster than I have ever seen before. I also like the thought of never having to use fsck again! I havent found any bugs or problems yet, and am running file services which require quite a lot of read/writing to the disk. I'll let you know if something does come up, but the way things have gone so far i doubt it. I have been using linux with ext2 for a long time now, and although the ext2 filesystem was good, i am happy to see the new generation (for linux) file systems coming into use in companies etc. I have used XFS on IRIX since the release of IRIX 5.3, so am very happy to see such a high performance file system coming across to linux. The anaconda installer was good too, the first step to an SGI-Linux distribution (which would be great). I have been using linux on the desktop with the 5dwm window manager and IMD for linux, an SGI linux distro with IMD for linux, and all the high performance stuff which makes IRIX so great is something I and a lot of other linux users would like to see happen. I will be very interested in seeing xlv for linux, and look forward to using XFS on some of our linux servers soon.

Thanks for everything, SGI is doing great things for Open Source, and look forward to many other ports of great sgi software.

Chris

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