On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 12:12 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
For instance, it has dedicated administration tools, like xfs_freeze, xfs_growfs, xfs_copy...
Add xfsdump to that list. The on-line and off-line utilities are just _damn_mature_ after 10 years, because the filesystem organization has _not_ changed (_unlike_ ReiserFS**). XFS was the very first journaling filesystem with Quota, POSIX ACL / Extended Attribute and other support under Linux. e2dump only recently got XATTR capability, and star with its XATTR store has been "shaky" of a solution for me in the past. So as much as I also like Ext3 for not changing as well, it clearly lags XFS in features and utilities with a long, production history. -- Bryan **NOTE: I applaud SuSE for having the best damn ReiserFS implementation of any distro. And I _do_ think ReiserFS has a good journal and on-line recovery mechanism in the kernel. But the problem with ReiserFS for me has always been when it needs an off-line fsck. And that's when the off-line utility doesn't always match the kernel implementation ... and bam! No more data. -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, technical annoyance mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ----------------------------------------------------------- Americans don't get upset because citizens in some foreign nations can burn the American flag -- Americans get upset because citizens in those same nations can't burn their own