On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:40:00PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > XFS surely rocks, but it's missing one critical component: data=ordered > And that's one component that's just too critical to overlook for an > enterprise environment that is built on data-integrity over performance. > > So that's the secret why people still use ext3, and XFS' reliance on external > hardware to ensure integrity is really misplaced. > > Now, maybe when we get the data=ordered onto the VFS level, then maybe XFS > may become viable for the enterprise, and ext3 may cease to be KING. Wow, thanks for bringing an advocacy thread onto linux-fsdevel. Just what we wanted. Do you have any insight into how to "get the data=ordered onto the VFS level"? Because to me, that sounds like pure nonsense. -- "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html