From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jun 10 17: 7:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3105E37B407 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 17:07:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from juha@saarinen.org) Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org ([192.168.1.1]) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hack)) id 159FEr-0005Ag-00; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:07:25 +1200 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:07:25 +1200 (NZST) From: Juha Saarinen To: Dave Uhring Cc: Chris BeHanna , FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Improvements for FreeBSD v4.3.1-Release? In-Reply-To: <01061019023702.00853@dave.uhring.com> Message-ID: X-S: Always MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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. -- Regards, Juha PGP fingerprint: B7E1 CC52 5FCA 9756 B502 10C8 4CD8 B066 12F3 9544 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message