[COLUG] XFS file system

[Joe Whipple]

I used XFS on every Gentoo server I ever created with no problems, even 
on /boot.
I have always found XFS very stable, and the fact it allocates inodes on 
the fly is nice when you have huge drives.
I have found the performance acceptable and would recommend it to 
anyone. The only time I lost anything to XFS was by drive failures.
So, 200 some odd servers later, I still use XFS.

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.
>
> Last week I installed a Kubuntu workstation, and selected XFS for the file 
> system, and received an error that grub sometimes doesn't work with XFS, and 
> it suggested I either use LILO or switch to a different file system.
>
> 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?
>
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