On Jul 27, 2013, at 6:50 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "aurfalien" <aurfalien@xxxxxxxxx> > >>> If Dave thinks *that* question is out of bounds, then when I do my >>> rotating reformat to recover from my recent power supply induced >>> crash, XFS will not be the file system I pick off the pulldown menu >>> to reformat with. >> >> Well, you'll be missing out. Who cares what any one thinks in terms of >> Free vs Fee paradigms, XFS is simply a rockin FS. > > You bet; we've put dozens of TB on and off it in 9 years of running > MythTV. And in the 2 instances where it's blown its brains out, > Dave, in particular, has been very helpful in putting it back together; > it's a little unnerving, actually, to look the handle up after an > IRC chat and discover you had the lead dev on the phone. > >> I was really intrigued by his and Linus's back and forth not to long >> ago, some great knowledge for sure. > > I was watching that; I didn't see it end. Did it? Not really but I'm waiting :) >> This list is great so filter whats applicable and toss the rest in a >> bit bucket. > > As it happens, though, My Sister's DVR is *not* the only machine with > Really Big Filesystems on it*, and it really does matter to me what the > development policies are on critical subsystems like this; hence my > query above. > > I really really *love* SuSE, after 8 years, but they've made a critical > change I simply can't tolerate for commercial use, and I'm going to have > to pick a new distro. (And anyone who says "well, just switch to SLES" > either forgets that that's $1200/server/year, or forgets where Linux came > from in the first place...) > > CentOS is the only thing that's anywhere close. If it RHEL/CentOS really is the only option, then perhaps get one box on RHEL and submit bugs for it. - aurf _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
