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Date:      Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:19:25 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Mipam <reinoud@ibbnet.org>, William Freeman <wdf@picusnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xfs and freebsd?
Message-ID:  <20000403101925.H42140@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000403022421.A13027@ibb0021.ibb.uu.nl>
References:  <20000403022421.A13027@ibb0021.ibb.uu.nl> <20000402193140.A43016@gwernache.picusnet.com> <20000403022421.A13027@ibb0021.ibb.uu.nl>

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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
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