Re: Opinions XFS
Sam Leon <leon.mailinglist.36@gmail.com> writes:
>> Hi I was reading http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/index.html and was
>> amazed because XFS powerful features. But I'd like opinions if xfs
>> should be a good alternative to ext3 in typical cases, or if it should
>> be relegated to critical missions servers.
>
> From what I have read xfs and jfs can corrupt data quickly if the drive
> is not properly unmounted first (ie, forced reboot, power outage)
>
> People generally stick with ext3 because there is more support for it.
What about speed? I've noticed that on some systems I use that have XFS
filesystems, many file operations are sloooooooow -- in particular,
deleting files seems to take forever. Ext2/3 seem much, much faster in
general...
-Miles
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