From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Sep 28 9: 7: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from chuggalug.clues.com (chuggalug.clues.com [194.159.1.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F30D37B422 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:07:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from geoffb@localhost) by chuggalug.clues.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA02874; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:07:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from geoffb) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:07:01 +0100 From: Geoff Buckingham To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFS Message-ID: <20000928170701.C2431@chuggalug.clues.com> References: <20000928130419.A2374@chuggalug.clues.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 03:30:40PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 03:30:40PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > I'm not sure what the point of your question is, but: > Essentially I was wondering if following this announcement, and the availability of code XFS was likely to make it's way into /usr/src/contrib one day. I understand the GPL issues but have spent the last 4-5 years building/maintaining/fixing soloutions for large ISPs/telco/webhosting companies. In that time I have come to appreciate the perfomance and recovery characteristic of XFS in IRIX. Also appreciated the performace reliability and maintainability (is that a real word?) of FreeBSD. In addition I had to fix a couple of busy services that had been deployed on Linux and broken under load (usually through a combination of poor design and the limitations of the Linux kernel). I now find myself in the movie/internet world, looking for 5TB+ file systems to run 24x7 XFS is attractive. Linux is not. > > 3) it's interesting to note that SGI would probably have had an > easier time porting XFS to FreeBSD than to Linux; most of the > caveats listed on that page would not apply to FreeBSD. > :-) I came to that conclusion too. -- GeoffB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message