From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jun 10 17:36:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dc-mx05.cluster1.charter.net (dc-mx05.cluster0.hsacorp.net [209.225.8.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FF5F37B41F for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 17:36:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from duhring@charter.net) Received: from [24.217.157.193] (HELO dave.uhring.com) by dc-mx05.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.6) with SMTP id 9012454; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 20:42:36 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Dave Uhring To: Juha Saarinen Subject: Re: Improvements for FreeBSD v4.3.1-Release? Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 19:36:43 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: Chris BeHanna , FreeBSD-Stable References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01061019364303.00853@dave.uhring.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 10 June 2001 19:07, Juha Saarinen wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Dave Uhring wrote: > > For a first-hand look at XFS, you can do a Linux install of RedHat-7.1 > > by beginning the install with a CD made from SGI's XFS iso available at > > > > ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/ > > > > I have one of these systems set up and the journalling doesn't to slow > > the system much at all. Also had a power failure and the system > > survived its "smoke test" without damage. > > That's my experience too -- the f/s seems to survive plenty of abuse. > Remember though that no f/s can rescue data that hasn't been written to > the hard disk. Some people thought that they could pull the plug during a > file save, and still have their data intact... doesn't quite work ;-) > > Also, it's worth moving up to the newer CVS versions of XFS plus tools -- > plenty of fixes applied after 1.0 testing. > > > Since XFS is GPL'd, inclusion with the FreeBSD kernel seems > > problematic, however. > > They might be open to changing the license... worth asking, perhaps. I tried today to cvsup from their server. Seemed to be dead. As Munish pointed out, they seem to be cutting back substantially on their Linux initiative. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message