Florin Andrei írta:
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 10:57 -0700, don fisher wrote:
I can determine that the XFS file system is supported. But it does not
appear to be mainstream (e.g. no mkfs.xfs etc). Abut two years ago it
was used for large (>4TB) and fast file systems.
What is the current status of XFS. Most all of the documentation I
have been able to locate date from the last century.
When you boot the Fedora installer, add "xfs" to the list of the
parameters at the very first prompt. E.g. "linux text xfs" (or "linux
xfs text", can't remember the correct order) for a text-based install
that activates XFS.
You can then create XFS partitions with the installer.
The XFS utilities will be installed automatically.
It is recommended to use XFS on partitions which contain very large
files that are read/written at high speeds. E.g. video capture, MythTV,
etc. XFS is the best performer in that case.
I am using it all the time on my 200GB multimedia/MythTV partition with
FC4 and works extremely well.
Well, I have installed FC3 that way (XFS on most partitions)
and now I regret it. All the time I have a power failure (very rare)
or a kernel crash, all the files that were opened O_RDWR contain only
zeroes after reboot. And most of the time the Oops points to the xfs driver.
:-(
Fortunately JOE and other editors close the backup file after saving.
But I had to reinstall several RPMs on such occasions because
prelink or ldconfig was running at the time of the crash.
I never had such a problem with EXT3 before.
I run kernel.org kernels and 2.6.15-rc4-git2 still gives me problems.
Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi
