[NTLUG:Discuss] [Bulk] Re: ext3 waste disk spaces then Windows ME?

[David Stanaway]

Chris Cox wrote:
> At the time I did my work comparing them, XFS wasn't quite baked yet
> (had some issues).  XFS has always been the filesystem to wait for...
> and now that it is here, perhaps it is an excellent choice.
> 
> Btw, my findings agree with the findings in the article with regards
> to the low CPU utilization characteristics of JFS.  We went with
> reiserfs because it was it was very fast on some operations and not
> terribly far off the mark on others, and what we really liked was
> the ability to resize filesystems on the fly (while still mounted).
> Which at the time we did our tests, only reiserfs could do this.

xfs does that too. It is a great compliment to lvm2.

One more serious that had occurred with xfs in the past was a bug with 
stale block data after the end of the used portion being seen when a 
file was read with memory mapped IO as occurs with gcc for instance.