[COLUG] XFS file system

[Larry W Howell]

Brian Miller wrote:
> Does anyone use XFS on Linux for much?  We tend to use SuSE at work, and that 
> use to default to Reiserfs. (I've seen comments that they are starting to 
> move back to ext3 recently.)  But about a year ago, after hearing some people 
> at Novell talk about how Reiserfs starts to show some serious performance 
> hits once you get to 4 processors, we started moving to XFS.  We haven't had 
> any problems with it.
> 

I've used XFS on several Gentoo and Linux from Scratch systems for /usr, /var, 
/tmp, /opt, and /home and never had any problems.  (The /boot was ext2 and / 
was Reiserfs.)  They were typically desktops but two were home servers.  One 
of the servers functioned for over two years before I shut it down early this 
year.  Note that these were basically experimental/learning systems here at 
home, so they may not be representative of performance and reliability in a 
more stressful environment.

Larry