Re: ext3 + xfs + jfs + reiser

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne@xxxxxxxxx>]

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?
No, but this is what Civileme (the highly-respected-in-Mandrake-circles 
QA manager at Mandrakesoft) posted on the Mandrakeforum:
http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1212&lang=en

It is interesting to see here that:
1)Mandrake considers XFS better for general use than ReiserFS, which 
they have shipped with since 7.1
2)Mandrake considers JFS (1.0.4) unstable, I am not sure if they 
actually disabled JFS in the installer or not ....
3)Ext3 is by far the slowest of the 3 Journalling FS's availble, and 
only has one advantage - easy migration from ext2.

That said, I am still sitting with the majority of our data on ReiserFS, 
until I have enough spare disk space to migrate to XFS (ACLs would be 
really convenient right now ....)

> (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.)
AFAIK XFS and Ext3 are both in -ac kernels now?

> > On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 12:21, pac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > >  Anyone know of a super-duper-all-in-one patch for
> > >   xfs+ext3+jfs+ (reiser is already in the kernel) ?
This is not for the faint-of-heart  ... After taking a look at the 
kernel in Mandrake's cooker at:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/SPECS/kernel
you will notice that there are a lot of patches for XFS and JFS against 
2.4.12-ac3 .....

Buchan

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