[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Strange Request, Maybe?

[Steve Baker]

cbbrowne at hex.net wrote:

> They're paying Stephen Tweedy to do filesystem work, and "his filesystem"
> is ext3, which is essentially ext2 plus a journal file alongside.  They
> have been pretty careful to not say anything too negative about ReiserFS,
> but it sure looks like it suffers from "Not Invented Here" syndrome.

You can kinda understand that - you spend all that time and effort to
write a fancy filing system only to find everyone rushing off to adopt
a different one...not a good feeling.
 
> XFS may be pretty neat, but I wouldn't expect people to start using it
> en masse until, _at the earliest_, when kernel 2.6 is released.  And
> 2.5 work hasn't started yet, so that is RATHER afar off.

But at least SGI have been running XFS under IRIX for a couple of years
now.  I'd expect it to have the worst of the kinks worked out after all
that practical service.

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