On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Yamaban <foerster@lisas.de> wrote:
Other filesystems (XFS,JFS,ZFS,...) should be only in expert-mode made available, or above a certain partition-size (see btrfs and 15TB), with a strong hint about these fs not being useful in most SOHO cases.
I argue XFS for sure should stay on the list. == background Dave Chinner (xfs devel) would argue that ext2/3/4 is what should be removed from the default list and XFS & btrfs be the only 2 choices. See this from Jan 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FegjLbCnoBw He says anything with a 3.0 or newer kernel should be considering xfs in preference to ext2/3/4 if they have multiple CPUs (and even my phone has multiple CPUs) performing I/O to the fiilesystem. The core argument for that is recent XFS from the last couple years has incorporated a lot of the ext3 / ext4 speed improvements in journal handling, but it has maintained the scalability capacity it always had. Thus it is now useable from the desktop to the datacenter. I haven't seen a xfs related lost data horror story from a routine power outage in years, so the old statement the xfs only made sense if you had solid power is no longer true I don't think. Thus Dave Chinner argues that a user wanting a stable FS that scales from desktop to enterprise should focus on XFS. Users that want the features of btrfs should use it on their desktops and XFS on their big systems. Greg -- Greg Freemyer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org