Jerry Kreps wrote:
Let me offer some suggestions: 1) XFS has just been released - no significant testing has been done.
Bull SHT. Maybe not by SuSE directly but there are thousands of people using it NOW. I am and have been using it for about 8 Months at work. The ONLY road block I know of is the gcc revision required for it to function correctly (2.96.1). This revision causes me headaches for both the kernel and X/kde. Other than that issue (which is significant) there is nothing holding me back. I know that SuSE is watching it closely. I think they may even have people helping with it behind the schemes. I believe they have alot invested in reiser and don't want to appear as if they aren't in full support of reiser so you may NEVER see it on a SUSE dist. There have been plenty of bench marks done and there has been MUCH testing. It's almost as stable as reiser is. It's just that kernel issue that is holding it up for me. Is there a fix for reiser and knfsd? There are support tools for XFS also. Is there a dump/restore for reiser? I tell you XFS will be the one to win. It's considered the Rolls-Royce of file systems on sgi's hardware. Ask Sun or HP or even IBM who has the best journaling filesystem. They all know SGI does. It is my beleif that it WILL be for the desktop also very soon. Oh yea one other drawback. They are red-hat lovers. Can't have everything.. -- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com