On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 11:05, Seth Mos wrote:
> On Thu, 2 May 2002, Mike Keefe wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I noticed that the Technical Specifications for XFS specified
> > that at least 64 MB of memory is suggested for a Linux-based
> > XFS system. What I'd like to know is: what is the smallest memory
> > configuration that Linux XFS has been installed on and run
> > successfully ?
>
> 12MB
>
> > Do you even see it as being feasible to run on a signle processor
> > embedded
> > system with 16 MB of main memory ?
>
> Others already are. Performance won't be stellar but it will do just
> fine.
There used to be some issues with filesystem recovery using a lot of
memory, these should be gone now. I would not recommend 16M if you
are looking for streaming data on or off the filesystem, other than
that is should not be a problem.
Steve
>
> Cheers
> Seth
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