<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:14 AM, leam hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com" target="_blank">leamhall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Chuck Payne <<a href="mailto:terrorpup@gmail.com">terrorpup@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> XFS sounds great if I want to run a system with an exabyte of space. Again<br>
> developer living in their utopia and not reaching down to us system admin on<br>
> what works.<br>
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</span>Part of me wants to learn how to program C so I can really get into<br>
the kernel. The reality part of me looks at where my paycheck comes<br>
from; keeping servers working.<br>
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I do not want to have to tell my boss we accepted the vendor's default<br>
and lost a few terabytes of business critical data.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>More likely to lose that TB on ext4 than XFS. Different beast and rock solid.<br></div><div>EXT4 promised scalability to the level that XFS has had for a decade. Still hits limits in EXT4 due to design bugs far below the EB scale level that XFS can tolerate.<br><br></div><div>And XFS could care less about whether you are using a few GB or hundreds of PB, it still does the right thing. It uses different tools than ext[2,3,4] and many are similar but some are very different. Man pages are written very well for them and have examples.<br><br></div><div>I jumped ship to XFS a few years back when some file servers in the low tens of TB couldn't be run on ext4 thanks to the (known and un-fixed 4 year old) bugs. Fixing the bugs will break ext4 badly as it an architecture issue somewhere. I see that as ext4 is headed for extinction.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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