Off-topic, advocacy-level response ... On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 11:43 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > I do so wish that RedHat shared this view... I've been trying to convince them since Red Hat Linux 7 (and, later, 9) that they need to realize the limits of Ext3 at the enterprise end of the scalability spectrum -- you know, that whole market they are seemingly saying they are the king of and a replacement for Sun? ;-> The problem with Red Hat is that when anyone brings up an alternative to Ext3, Red Hat falls back to arguments against other filesystems, which is rather easy given the various compatibility issues with JFS (ported from OS/2, requiring a lot of inode compatibility hacks -- don't get me started with my experiences) and ReiserFS (utter lack of inode compatibility in structures, requiring kernel-level emulation, etc... that never seems to work, regardless of what the advocates say, let alone the almsota always "out-of-sync" off-line repair tools). But when you bring up XFS and its history of a stable, but advanced inode structure, quota support from day 1, POSIX ACLs from nearly day 1, and all the SGI team put into 2.5.3+ that is now stock kernel, they still try to dance. One thing I always get is "oh, its extents don't perform well for /tmp or /var" or countless other arguments, of which I merely respond, "all the more reason to use Ext3 for those few filesystems, and XFS when Ext3 doesn't scale -- like for large /home, /export, etc... filesystems." No matter how many times I put forth the argument that XFS complements Ext3, they seem to treat it as yet another JFS/ReiserFS argument. Hopeless? -- Bryan "one of the reasons I still deploy Solaris instead of RHEL for fileservers, even though RHL7+XFS and RHL9+XFS rocked (and are still rocking!)" Smith -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance mailto:b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx http://thebs413.blogspot.com -------------------------------------------------------- Fission Power: An Inconvenient Solution - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
