[linux-audio-user] XFS on FC2; experiences, pointers?

Spencer Russell Spencer.Russell at oberlin.edu
Thu Jan 6 05:26:48 EST 2005


On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:12:04AM +0000, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:11:57 -0800, Barton Bosch wrote:
> > I'm going to be doing a fresh install of FC2 in the near future and 
> > am considering using an XFS data partition for music and video files.
> > 
> > It seems that XFS isn't an install time option (according to Disk 
> > Druid).  How is an XFS partition added?  Does anyone here have any 
> > experiences or pointers to share WRT XFS or XFS and FC2?
> 
> I experiments with JFS and XFS some time ago, and thier performance for
> media files (or a relativly slow disk) wasn't that good compared to ext3.
> 
> Things may have changed of course.
> 
> - Steve

I've heard good things about reiser4, it's supposed to be faster
than anything out there right now. I don't know anything about
it's stability, though. Is anyone using reiser4? I'm using
reiserFS for my main system partitions right now, and I haven't
had any problems with it.

-spencer



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