<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>yep. XFS on Irix was painful. IRIX was painful (but the hardware was really, really cool!)<br><br></div>The download from somewhere other than CentOS disks will likely not have XFS support. But then I always have a live DVD of the current CentOS anyway and it has support for everything the main install system does.<br>
<br></div>I used JFS for about 2 months and decided I liked pretty much anything else better. It was very fast and both delivering files and losing inode data about them once they were open. I've not revisited that one.<br>
<br></div>So you _just_ moved to ext4. from what ext compiled with a.out format binaries?<br><br>:-}<br><br></div>If I had the RAM horsepower to run dedupe portion of ZFS it would be very useful. But I really don't understand the fascination with doing filesystem snapshots. My old-geezer factor is gimme a damn tape backup system. I want important stuff in at least 2 different locations. Filesystem snapshots tend to get stored on the same hard drives the real filesystem is on so that's useless from my perspective.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:16 PM, JD <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com" target="_blank">jdp@algoloma.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="">On 07/25/2014 02:57 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> XFS has been out of beta for 10 years. It's been an install option since<br>
> RHEL5.<br>
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</div>I've used XFS on Irix and for a short test on Linux in the early 2000s with a<br>
multitude of different FS which shouldn't count. If it is the default for your<br>
flavor, then i'd use it.<br>
<br>
I made the mistake of using JFS for about a decade, prior to it being in the<br>
base kernel. I've learned about the hassles of doing that and don't plan to make<br>
that mistake again. Most of the save-your-butt utility disks aren't going to<br>
support XFS, so if that is important to you, it is a consideration. OTOH, in a<br>
work environment, that probably isn't normal.<br>
<br>
XFS is NOT the default on all linuxen, but it is definitely more proven than btrfs.<br>
<br>
I should point out that I'm very cautious - having switched to ext4 just 18<br>
months ago.<br>
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