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  • From: Andrew Stitt <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • To: Phil/CERisE/KG6MBQ <cerise AT littlegreenmen.armory.com>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] fresh install questions
  • Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:58:00 -0700

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 05:15:37PM -0700, Phil/CERisE/KG6MBQ wrote:
> Umm, what I suspected was the cause might very well not be. Let's be a
> little more fair to the good folks at SGI. All they say on their site
> is "If it hurts...DON'T DO IT!!!"
>
> No, I didn't make that up.
>
> After some brief tests, it was clear on my system that XFS was
> significantly faster. That's the reason I use it. I think it's an
> excellent filesystem. There may or may not be some logical way around
> the problem. I never looked into that. Mostly because I never lost
> anything important. Perhaps there's a method to that madness? Perhaps
> it involves having backups around? ; )
>
> One thing that should be noted for the ultra-paranoid is that deleted
> files are often the first place that XFS tries to write, thus making
> unremove operations impossible.
>
> -Phil/CERisE

speaking of XFS, does anyone know when its going to be included in the
kernel? or is it already in a 2.5 releasse?




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