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XFS merged in Linux 2.5

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the who-says-journals-are-for-girls dept.

joib writes "According to this notice, the XFS journaling file system has been merged into Linus bitkeeper tree, to show up in 2.5.36." Ya just know someone out there wants to have every journaling file system on one drive just 'cuz.

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  1. But where is e2compr by Kynde · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are systems where we simply don't and won't have enough disk space and where speed is not of the essence. We have them now, and we will continue to have them in the future.

    Being a linux developer for embedded production boxes and given the current increasing interest over linux in embedded along with embedded boxes typically running _WITHOUT_ hard disks (mostly just flash chips of some sort, due to their better life-time), I cannot help wondering why the kernel mailing list shows little or no interest towards ext2 (or ext3) compression.

    JFFS and JFFS2 don't come into question in most cases as they tear through the fs layers and cannot be used with IDE flash chips for example.

    Alcatel even released it two weeks ago for 2.4.17... loads of people, like me, must have ported it to 2.4.19 by now. But to get ext2 compression to 2.5.XX, forget it... but why?

    This little like the lack interest towards under clocking, eventhough once you've overclocked your main computer to the max, you will start looking for more silent option, if not for the desktop computer, but for the closet firewall. Even if you don't have the interest now, you will, once you shack in with a gal.

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  2. Re:Silly question by rseuhs · · Score: 5, Insightful
    XFS supports ACL's (or access control lists) which are much better than standard UNIX permissions.

    Actually I think ACLs are the reason why everybody is running as Administrator in Windows. They are just too damn complicated.

    The Unix-permissions are simple. You can understand the concept of user-group-all in a few minutes and there are only 2 commands to remember (chmod, chown).

    Also, Unix-permissions have so far fit with everything I needed and in the rare case you really need something special, there is also sudo.

    I think ACLs are only useful for a tiny minority, IMO. I certainly don't need it.