On 8/14/2010 9:59 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2010-08-15 01:45, Linda Walsh wrote:
Forward this from the linux-xfs list, in hoping that decision-makers will consider XFS as the default suse OS install choice.
I use XFS, but it has issues when used for the root (/) filesystem, it is incompatible with grub in the same partition (there are bugzillas for this, solution: known issue non solvable). So, grub has to go to the mbr or you need an extra /boot partition. Therefore, the ext3/4 family is a better choice as default filesystem, because it works on all scenarios.
Those that know or have different needs, can and do use xfs. I use xfs and reiserfs.
I have been on reiserfs since, almost, the beginning and - love it - it takes a beating and keep on ticking.
Before I bought, out of necessity, a UPS, we keep getting brown-outs, spikes and complete power failures, and reiserfs has never failed - me.
Now, I'm not the most speed observing person however when I was very very low on space, it was the - best - option to get the best use of space (even with major tweaking on the others filesystems).
To bad - it's not - continuing being developed.
Nothing beats reiser3 yet for all-around performance and reliability. All our application servers have been reiser3 for the last 6 years and no problems. Just for comparison I have allowed a couple boxes here & there to be the default ext3 which everything else is the same as other boxes, hardware/OS/workload, and the ext3 boxes are dogs in comparison. They are ok, you wouldn't know they were slow except in comparison. They are insanely faster than HTFS from SCO Open Server on the same hardware for instance. But Reiser3 is even faster and with no reliability penalty so it's a no-brainer. xfs is good for what it's good for, which is actually a pretty limited set of circumstances. It would be a terrible general default. Reiser4 and ext4 I would not put my customers data on yet. Maybe one or the other is safe by now, maybe not. Probably ext4 is safe enough by now but Reiser3 still outperforms it anyways so who cares? Reiser4 is definitely still too wobbly-legged. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org