[COLUG] XFS file system

Scott Merrill skippy at skippy.net
Wed Aug 22 20:33:54 EDT 2007


Brian Miller wrote:
> Does anyone use XFS on Linux for much?

I used to use it on a couple of systems.  It worked well enough for me,
though I admit I never had any hardware or filesystem problems, so _any_
filesystem likely would have worked just as well.

> I'll admit that when using XFS inside of a VMWare guest I have had problems 
> getting a system to boot, but I've never had problems on physical hardware.  
> Has anyone else had issues with using XFS for / or /boot?

I always used ext3 for my root and boot partitions.  I don't think they
benefit in any meaningful way from what XFS provides.

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