From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 2 17:50: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 816D337B600 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 17:50:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA42846; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:19:26 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:19:25 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mipam , William Freeman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xfs and freebsd? Message-ID: <20000403101925.H42140@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000403022421.A13027@ibb0021.ibb.uu.nl> <20000402193140.A43016@gwernache.picusnet.com> <20000403022421.A13027@ibb0021.ibb.uu.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000403022421.A13027@ibb0021.ibb.uu.nl> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Both of you, please format your text to be legible. On Monday, 3 April 2000 at 2:24:21 +0200, Mipam wrote: > Hi, > > Now xfs is comming into linux, what about the thought of xfs in > freebsd? We're investigating it. > I mean, the fs rocks in performance and reliability On IRIX. What makes you think it would on FreeBSD? There's more than just the file system involved. > and contains no inodes XFS uses inodes. > which is good for scalibility. Why? On Sunday, 2 April 2000 at 19:31:40 -0400, William Freeman wrote: > Do you mean like replece the FFS with XFS, thus giving even more > performance over that nasty ext2fs thing Linux-based systems use, Note that XFS *has* been ported to Linux. One of the things I want to look at is how it performs there compared to ext2fs. > or just support it as a KLD option or so? That's not really a difference. If there's a question, it's "will there be root file system support?" I don't see any reason to replace ufs with XFS, even if the file system of choice becomes XFS. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message