16 Feb
2003
16 Feb
'03
1:26 p.m.
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 19:07, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 16:46, Jan "Evil Twin"
Depner wrote:
I set it up with Red Hat 8 or Mandrake or something... {I set up a lot
of stuff last month. It's been a while since I've really used linux...
I wanted to experiment.}
:} I did a backup on that drive not realizing that I'd never see it
again. {I just have to move everything off of the cds again... still,
it's a pain.}
I finally managed to download Demudi though... I may try it again...
--
Rick Taylor <ricktaylor(a)speakeasy.net>
The Dispossessed
I actually think XFS would be a good solution,
however, as Mark Knecht
said, it doesn't come with kernel I'm using. It may also not be as
stable as reiserfs, I just don't know. Reiserfs works well for me so
I'll wait until XFS has been beaten on for a while.
I was told by the XFS design team that to use it on 2.4.X you have to
patch. I subscribed to the XFS reflector for a while and found that the
number and type of problems I was hearing about were too scary for me,
so I passed for now.
They tell me that it will be a file system option in 2.5.X, and indeed
it's there in the make sconfig build script, but I have not tried it. No
time.
XFS is supposed to be very good for large files, while reiser is best
for small files. Hence, we could hope that XFS eventually becomes a good
option. Look for 2.7.X or 2.9.X.....