From: bitbug@seal.engr.sgi.com (James Buster) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: XFS and journalling filesystems Date: 28 May 1999 00:31:37 GMT Organization: SGI Lines: 12 Distribution: sgi Message-ID: <7iko59$dibn9@fido.engr.sgi.com> References: <7ij4cr$g3gck@fido.engr.sgi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: seal.engr.sgi.com In article <7ij4cr$g3gck@fido.engr.sgi.com>, David Luyer wrote: >It is a 64-bit filesystem, and they even state that its release is hoped >to encourage the use of their hardware - I don't think they're aiming for >it to be usable on 32-bit systems here. Since XFS works on 32-bit SGI systems (Indys, for example), it should be no problem to get it working on a 32-bit Intel system. -- Planet Bog -- pools of toxic chemicals bubble under a choking atomsphere of poisonous gases... but aside from that, it's not much like Earth. From: bitbug@seal.engr.sgi.com (James Buster) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: XFS and journalling filesystems Date: 28 May 1999 00:29:43 GMT Organization: SGI Lines: 14 Distribution: sgi Message-ID: <7iko1n$gguef@fido.engr.sgi.com> References: <37449574.93F56466@stud.umist.ac.uk> <00c501bea6c4$64a469d0$e6976dcf@TRGMERKEYNT2000> <7ijuj3$gbv47@fido.engr.sgi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: seal.engr.sgi.com In article <7ijuj3$gbv47@fido.engr.sgi.com>, Jeff Merkey wrote: >There's a lot of issues with mapping a **REAL** SMP file system to Linux. >Linux needs a lot of SMP work to support these types of technologies with >some decent scaling and an expanded set of sync primitive. I've got >$100.00 that says it will be **SLOWER** than ext2, and the scaling will >be dismal. Care to take the bet? We've got installed base with 256 CPUs, 128GB of memory and 10TB of disk on a single machine, and you think XFS *isn't* a "real SMP filesystem"? -- Planet Bog -- pools of toxic chemicals bubble under a choking atomsphere of poisonous gases... but aside from that, it's not much like Earth.