Greg Freemyer skrev:
On 5/15/06, Ralph Ellis
wrote: I tried doing an install of Suse 10.1 using the XFS filesystem instead of reiserFS on my main desktop computer. The install seemed to go much quicker. I am trying this to see if this would be a faster or better performing alternative to reiserFS which I am using on my laptop computer. I was wondering what other people's experiences have been like with this file system. Thanks Ralph Ellis
XFS on a laptop, you really have to joking.
XFS does NOT do well with unexpected shutdowns. In particular it can fill files that are open at shutdown with nulls. I personally would not use XFS unless I had dual power-supplies connected to dual UPSs.
And yes, I do use XFS much of the time, but I have the above redundant power and I only use it for real data filesystems, not /, /usr, /var, etc.
Greg
Greg, What are your NSHO ( ;-) ) about JFS? I'm also looking at implementing a high performing FS on a client machine that shovels loads of files, both small and big, and I do *NOT* want XFS on that machine. Personally I prefer XFS myself, but then I do have redundancy all the way on my systems... Anders.