From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 17 14:16:10 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B61C616A41F for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:16:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4567543D62 for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:16:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 Dec 2005 14:16:02 -0000 Received: from p509137D6.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO merlin) [80.145.55.214] by mail.gmx.net (mp036) with SMTP; 17 Dec 2005 15:16:02 +0100 X-Authenticated: #428038 Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:15:28 +0100 From: Matthias Andree To: Lars Erik Gullerud Message-ID: <20051217141528.GB27992@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: Lars Erik Gullerud , Craig Rodrigues , freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20051213151908.GA26821@crodrigues.org> <20051216132641.C29205@electra.nolink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051216132641.C29205@electra.nolink.net> X-PGP-Key: http://home.pages.de/~mandree/keys/GPGKEY.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Craig Rodrigues , Matthias Andree , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFS (read-only) support committed to CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:16:10 -0000 On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Lars Erik Gullerud wrote: > >Ext3fs appears to have some advantages, easy migration from and to > >ext2fs, shrinkable, data journalling, data ordering (write data blocks > >before the file metadata is written) and so on. > > ...and this has what to do with the fact that FreeBSD now supports XFS? I was wondering if the way from ext2fs to ext3fs might have been shorter, code-wise. I will skip lots of good points in defense of XFS, and I really don't mind it being supported by XFS (in fact I'm looking forward to write support). > >I don't mean this should become an advocacy discussion, as XFS surely > >has advantages, too, real-time capability and so on - but ext2fs is > >already there and has write support. > > Then use ext2fs. Isn't the availability of multiple choices great? Yes, it is :-) -- Matthias Andree