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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.

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