Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 19:36:43 -0500 From: Dave Uhring <duhring@charter.net> To: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> Cc: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>, FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Improvements for FreeBSD v4.3.1-Release? Message-ID: <01061019364303.00853@dave.uhring.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106111203530.5609-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106111203530.5609-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org>
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On Sunday 10 June 2001 19:07, Juha Saarinen wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Dave Uhring wrote: > > For a first-hand look at XFS, you can do a Linux install of RedHat-7.1 > > by beginning the install with a CD made from SGI's XFS iso available at > > > > ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/ > > > > I have one of these systems set up and the journalling doesn't to slow > > the system much at all. Also had a power failure and the system > > survived its "smoke test" without damage. > > That's my experience too -- the f/s seems to survive plenty of abuse. > Remember though that no f/s can rescue data that hasn't been written to > the hard disk. Some people thought that they could pull the plug during a > file save, and still have their data intact... doesn't quite work ;-) > > Also, it's worth moving up to the newer CVS versions of XFS plus tools -- > plenty of fixes applied after 1.0 testing. > > > Since XFS is GPL'd, inclusion with the FreeBSD kernel seems > > problematic, however. > > They might be open to changing the license... worth asking, perhaps. I tried today to cvsup from their server. Seemed to be dead. As Munish pointed out, they seem to be cutting back substantially on their Linux initiative. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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