Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:19:25 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mipam <reinoud@ibbnet.org>, William Freeman <wdf@picusnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xfs and freebsd? Message-ID: <20000403101925.H42140@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000403022421.A13027@ibb0021.ibb.uu.nl> References: <20000403022421.A13027@ibb0021.ibb.uu.nl> <20000402193140.A43016@gwernache.picusnet.com> <20000403022421.A13027@ibb0021.ibb.uu.nl>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Both of you, please format your text to be legible. On Monday, 3 April 2000 at 2:24:21 +0200, Mipam wrote: > Hi, > > Now xfs is comming into linux, what about the thought of xfs in > freebsd? We're investigating it. > I mean, the fs rocks in performance and reliability On IRIX. What makes you think it would on FreeBSD? There's more than just the file system involved. > and contains no inodes XFS uses inodes. > which is good for scalibility. Why? On Sunday, 2 April 2000 at 19:31:40 -0400, William Freeman wrote: > Do you mean like replece the FFS with XFS, thus giving even more > performance over that nasty ext2fs thing Linux-based systems use, Note that XFS *has* been ported to Linux. One of the things I want to look at is how it performs there compared to ext2fs. > or just support it as a KLD option or so? That's not really a difference. If there's a question, it's "will there be root file system support?" I don't see any reason to replace ufs with XFS, even if the file system of choice becomes XFS. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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