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

[Barton Bosch]

Rick Taylor wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 11:57 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 10:40 -0500, Rick B wrote:
>>
>>
>>> From what I've read XFS main strong point is *reading* data from the 
>>>disk faster than other FSs', especially as it pertains to large video 
>>>files. But when it comes to writing and deleting, its performance is 
>>>worse than other FSes. I've personally tried it and it didn't seem any 
>>>faster than ReiserFS.
>>
>>Actually, XFS is very fast at deleting very large files. I know, i do
>>DVD authoring all the time, Ext3 is simply ludicrous when deleting a lot
>>of very large project files, you have to wait and wait and wait... With
>>XFS, even a 50GB project gets deleted instantaneously.

FWIW I went ahead and formatted my data partition as XFS when I 
reinstalled.  I passed the 'linux xfs' parameter to the FC2 
installer held off on formatting the partition.  As it turns out 
this doesn't cause xfsprgs to be installed automatically and I had 
to track it down and install by hand (the rpm is on disk 4).

XFS does delete gigantic files instantly and otherwise has run well; 
  so far so good.


Barton