Re: XFS enabled Debian 3.0r1 powerpc installer
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 07:05, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> I would expect it to be, it's the same here... so the question
> remains, why XFS.
It's fast, reliable and scalable! It's also proven (on IRIX and Linux).
But a word of warning, getting it to patch with the benh kernels can be
a little tricky (managed to get it going last night, although going to
compare against Lashi's tree...).
XFS does directory indexing natively (ext3 is extra option and currently
another patch) and tracks free space in a pair of B+Trees (one sorted by
location, the other by size). So searching for free space is nice and
fast and 40,000 file directories aren't (too) insane.
There is a full set of fsck and dump utilities for XFS (unlike Reiser,
these actually work).
Journaled quotas, no more quoatacheck!
Read some of the SGI docs on it, it's pretty impressive. Otherwise,
Dominic Giampaolo's book on the BeOS's BeFS has some interesting
performance comparisons (to ext2 and NTFS).
XFS also stores data on disk in your native byteorder :) (although they
found that the overhead of switching was minimal anyway....)
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Stewart Smith (stewart@linux.org.au)
Vice President, Linux Australia
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