From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 21 4:39:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (mail.palmerharvey.co.uk [62.172.109.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40E7E14FF7 for ; Fri, 21 May 1999 04:39:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk) Received: from ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk (unverified) by mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 2.0.15) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 21 May 1999 12:39:25 +0100 Received: from voodoo.pandhm.co.uk ([10.100.35.12]) by ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id L1BALPRC; Fri, 21 May 1999 12:31:39 +0100 Received: from dom by voodoo.pandhm.co.uk with local (Exim 2.10 #1) id 10knhm-000CNE-00; Fri, 21 May 1999 12:43:10 +0100 To: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SGI, XFS and OSS? X-Mailer: nmh-1.0 X-Colour: Green Organization: Palmer & Harvey McLane In-Reply-To: Christian Weisgerber's message of "21 May 1999 11:40:55 +0200" <7i39n7$dkn$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 12:43:10 +0100 From: Dom Mitchell Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 21 May 1999, Christian Weisgerber proclaimed: > For those of us who don't use Irix systems, much less administrate any, > could somebody sum up what's so remarkable about XFS? > > Jamie Bowden wrote: > > > XFS is -FAST- > > Anything else? Basically, it's a transactional logging filesystem (fast recovery, fast metadata updates), like LFS was going to be. It also has Btree based directories (as opposed to FFS's linear directories) which can make things quicker. Many other filesystems also have these attributes. For example HPFS (OS2) and NTFS (WinNT). However, XFS appears to be well done and designed with Unix in mind. -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator "Value of 2 may go down as well as up" -- FORTRAN programmers manual -- ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message