Re: 40TB File System Recommendations

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/14/2011 7:32 AM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>
> HAHAHAHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>
> The XFS codebase is the biggest pile of mess in the Linux kernel and you
> expect it to be not run into mysterious problems? Remember, XFS was
> PORTED over to Linux. It is not a 'native' thing to Linux.

Well yeah, but the way I remember it, SGI was using it for real work 
like video editing and storing zillions of files back when Linux was a 
toy with a 2 gig file size limit and linear directory scans as the only 
option.   If you mean that the Linux side had a not-invented-here 
attitude about it and did the port badly you might be right...

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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