Allan Wind wrote: > Kevin McKinley wrote: > > XFS has some neat stuff, but one thing it lacks is a file system check and > > repair utility. That seems to me a lot like hubris. > > I did not know that, thanks for pointing that out. But the whole point of a journaling filesystem is that it does not need a filesystem check and repair utility. So taking that as a negative when it is a positive is completely missing the point. It is all built into the filesystem itself. It is not hubris at this point. It is a design improvement. The above is like complaining that an automatic transition is faulty because it is missing a clutch pedal and remarking on the audacity of the designers for not including one. Automatics are not faulty for not having something they are designed not to need. [It is a bad analogy but I can't think of a better one. I drive a standard transmission myself and prefer it for many reasons, but I would still not call an auto lacking or full of hubris because of it. Please don't start a long thread extolling the virtues of the different transmissions. It is just an analogy. Life is like that sometimes. Actualy I guess that would be a simile.] Bob
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