Re: Opinions XFS
On Aug 3, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Miles Bader wrote:
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...
That's almost precisely the opposite of my experience.
I have a MythTV system where there are lots of large (2+ gigabyte)
video recordings. With ext3, deletes would block all writes to the
filesystem until they completed, causing skips if there was an
ongoing recording. With XFS I haven't had any such problems.
I think there's a bit of Not Invented Here syndrome with XFS that
causes people to be wary of it, but in my experience it's a rock-
solid filesystem. However, it doesn't journal data, only metadata,
so you may lose a bit of data if the system goes down uncleanly. The
filesystem will be protected from corruption, however. (Ext3fs can
also be configured this way, but its default is to journal data as
well as metadata.)
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