Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 12:43:10 +0100 From: Dom Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> To: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SGI, XFS and OSS? Message-ID: <E10knhm-000CNE-00@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Christian Weisgerber's message of "21 May 1999 11:40:55 %2B0200" <7i39n7$dkn$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
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On 21 May 1999, Christian Weisgerber proclaimed: > For those of us who don't use Irix systems, much less administrate any, > could somebody sum up what's so remarkable about XFS? > > Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> wrote: > > > XFS is -FAST- > > Anything else? Basically, it's a transactional logging filesystem (fast recovery, fast metadata updates), like LFS was going to be. It also has Btree based directories (as opposed to FFS's linear directories) which can make things quicker. Many other filesystems also have these attributes. For example HPFS (OS2) and NTFS (WinNT). However, XFS appears to be well done and designed with Unix in mind. -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator "Value of 2 may go down as well as up" -- FORTRAN programmers manual -- ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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