On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 11:08 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
Before I retired I had a samba server running using xfs so get the acl's to work. This machine was server docs to a few hundred employees without any problems.
Allison's tenure at SGI did a lot for XFS -- not just on Irix, but also when XFS was ported to Linux.
Think about it, if it was such a hugh issue SUSE -would not- allow it in the distribution since SUSE is about quality (that's why I use SUSE).
Ummm, have to _differ_ there. _Compatibility_ is something that is clearly ignored by any distro that ships ReiserFS, let alone Linus' choice to include it in 2.4.1+. Now don't get me wrong, XFS is a solid filesystem in design and implementation. Other than the original XFS 1.0 release bug that took out one of my /var filesystems, I've experienced *0* data loss. But there are some serious compatibility issues with the stock kernel 2.6 version (let alone the 2.4 backport). Other than the official SGI releases -- and most of those were on old, heavily hacked/modified kernel 2.4 release. The newer 2.6 (and 2.4 backport) have caused me headaches. Enough that I went back to Solaris for mission-critical NFS+Samba file servers. Kinda said, because Red Hat Linux 9 + Official SGI XFS 1.3 was absolutely solid (as well as RHL7.3 + XFS 1.2 before it). -- 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