Seth Mos wrote:
> There is a response in the bottom of the page about xfs
> support from Bryan Smith which also says that this article
> is not entirely correct.
As a sysadmin of a production network, I have to weigh my options.
That means testing for months. Right now, XFS is working with
flying colors. In fact, I think the 2.4 kernel "newness" (which is
_completely_understable_) itself is holding up my adoption of it for
servers.
Ext3 in full-data journaling mode works fine for now, but it's
clearly a stop-gap measure. I've had issues with Ext3 in meta-data
journaling (although others have reported v0.0.6b is much better).
ReiserFS is an absolute no-no as a file server IMHO because of the
kNFSd issues (despite the patches). But I am considering it for a
Squid cache proxy server. I'll be doing to benchmarks soon.
> The article is probably not even based on actual practical
> use or even testing the available variants.
Yeah. I run into these people on various LUGs all the time. I
assume RedHat is waiting on a Ext3 port to kernel 2.4 before it puts
a JFS in its installer. I sure wish they were looking at XFS at the
same time too.
-- TheBS
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