On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 18:23:43 +0000 (+0000), Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
Hi Andy,
[snip]
> On another topic, have you much experience of XFS?
>
> I see people saying that it much more performant and scalable than
> ext3, having some of the features that are only now being put into
> ext4, and of course the online resizing and freeze/thaw is nice.
> Any stability issues though?
>
> And is it still impossible to shrink it, even offline?
I must say I've never used XFS - the freeze/thaw interaction with LVM
had to be done manually - it's not integrated as ext3 is.
I keep hearing "blah is faster/more reliable" but then blah is
normally:
a) used by fewer people (so fewer problems)
b) not as well tested
JFS(2) for example gets very little press but generally does quite
well in benchmarks. Overall there doesn't often seem _that_ much
between them all. Partialy swings and roundabouts - one might delete
lots of files quickly but another delets large files quickly...
Adrian
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