Re: Who / What's using Linux XFS?

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:23 29-10-2001 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Hm, no examples here... what I'm _not_ looking for is "my home
> fileserver."  What I _am_ looking for is something like "The human
> genome project stores all data on Linux/XFS"  :)  Basically, something
> that someone else contemplating a substantial Linux/XFS deployment would
> be interested in.

Coltex Retail group BV in the Netherlands uses RedHat Linux with XFS for 
their main database server which collects the data from over 240 clothing 
retail stores throughout the Netherlands. Coltex depends on the availabilty 
of the server for over 100 hundred employees in the main office for 
retrieval of logistical and sales figures. The database size is roughly 
10GB large containing both historical and current data.

The entire production and logistical system depends on the availability of 
the system and downtime would mean a significant financial penalty. The 
speed and reliability of the XFS filesystem which has a proven track record 
and mature tools to go with it is fundamental to the availability of the 
system.

XFS has saved us a lot of time during testing and implementation. A long 
filesystems check is no longer needed when bad things happen when they do. 
The increased speed of our database system which is based on Progress 9.1C 
is also a nice benefit to this filesystem.

Spell check as needed.

Cheers

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.