Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
Way more than 17 users use XFS. I know way more people who use XFS over reiser, because of all the reiser corruption bugs circa 2.4.8. Though now it seems it's XFS' turn.Maybe the moral is you should use what everybody else uses. ext2/3 and to some extent Reiser are very well tested because practically everybody uses them. Major bugs in ext3 are readily apparent because it has millions of users. Major bugs in XFS are not found until one of sgi's 17 customers happens to trip over one.
By this logic, no one should use GFS, right, because only RHEL customers use it?
It doesn't follow per se, but it is a reasonable rule of thumb in general.
I dunno what platform you were doing this on, but VxFS on EMC hardware using Solaris is a mainstream platform.We switched to VxFS on EMC. 6 months later VxFS destroyed an extremely large filesystem. We were out of the mainstream. Never been tested.
Adam