Er, that was "Now, I'm NOT trying to start a flame."
The subconscious speaks, no?
> > On Monday 22 October 2001 20:43, Derek Glidden wrote:
> > > Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > > > Dunno about a single patch, but the latest Mandrake has all of those
> > > > filesystems co-existing.
> > >
> > > On a slight tangent, I was at an expo last week and a SuSE guy was also
> > > there. A brief discussion popped up about journaling filesystems and we
> > > determined that XFS was *not* going to be in SuSE 7.3 while Reiser, ext3
> > > and JFS were. His explanation was that XFS was not stable enough but
> > > had no more technical information.
> > >
> > > Can any SuSE guys around here comment more on that?
> > >
> > > (My suspicions are really less that it's unstable and more that it
> > > touches pretty deeply into the rest of the VFS layer that made them
> > > unhappy and not want to use it for whatever reason. Some of the same
> > > stuff I've seen Alan Cox mention here.)
> > >
> >
> > Weird... Both SuSe and RedHat pretend to aim enterprise market and at the
> > same time they don't want to support _real_ enterprise filesystems like XFS
> > and JFS. I would bet that most mission critical servers out there run
> > either
> > JFS or XFS as they are long-time tested, well documented and has some
> > kind of official support. The only idea that comes to my mind is that they
> > don't like the idea that commercial companies controls the sources for
> > those
> > FS even that they are opened to the public community. Not-stable is
> > obviously
> > not the reason here... Kudos for Mandrake anyway! :)
>
> I'm not sure I agree. We tested smallish sized hardware raids with XFS
> (albeit about 3 months ago) and had a devil of a time trying to get it
> work correctly. Generally, we just ran into the OS not being able to
> mount the array, seizing and having to perform a hard reboot. Now, I'm
> all about fiddling and getting things to work, but for production, mission
> critical data? No thank you. ReiserFS has worked flawlessly for us in
> XFS's stead.
>
> Now, I'm trying to start a flame, and I'm not bashing XFS in anyway, this
> was just my last experience with it.
>
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