[COLUG] XFS file system

[Travis Sidelinger]

Scott Merrill wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
I second always using ext for root and boot partitions.  The ext4 
development team talked about this some at the last Linux Symposium.  
There can be various compatibility issues with non ext based file systems.