David Kewley wrote on Tuesday 05 October 2004 09:38: > On to filesystems. I saw some commentary by Arjan on the RHEL4 beta > list http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/nahant-beta-list > suggesting that there is no good, known reason to use XFS in RHEL4 > (and presumably FC3?), because ext3 has been patched to provide > significantly better performance, and online resize of ext3 is being > actively worked on. Indeed those are the two obvious issues that I > care about, so I'm considering going with ext3 rather than XFS. > > Can anyone think of a reason to use XFS over ext3, even with the > improvements that Arjan mentioned? Maybe XFS scales better still, or > provides a significant advantage in filesystem size on 64-bit > architectures, compared to ext3? Any feedback on the above? :) Thanks much, David
