On 5/16/06, Anders Norrbring
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.
Sorry Anders, I started using XFS back in SuSE 8.0 (or 8.1) days when SuSE first started supporting it. Since then I've tracked it (and it's bugs) closely, but I've never used JFS. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century