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XFS Merged into Linux 2.4

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

Alphix writes "As noted on KernelTrap Marcelo has merged XFS into 2.4 after a code review by Christoph Hellwig. The mail from Marcelo on LKML is here. Apparently it touched very little VFS code so people not using XFS shouldn't see any ill effects from this (it's even supposed to fix some VFS bugs). XFS is described by SGI as '...a journalling filesystem developed by SGI and used in SGI's IRIX operating system. It is now also available under GPL for linux. It is extremely scalable, using btrees extensively to support large and/or sparse files, and extremely large directories. The journalling capability means no more waiting for fsck's or worrying about meta-data corruption.' Let the stability vs. new-features flamewar begin."

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  1. Yes, by sirReal.83. · · Score: 0, Redundant

    this is a good thing... and XFS seems to be pretty cool. But it is a little frustrating to have so many competing filesystems. Anyone care to enlighten me on the differences between ext3, reiserfs, XFS and JFS (is that last one even relevant?) ...?

  2. Re:Wonder... by triptolemeus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Right.

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  3. I say what....? by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Last I checked ext3 has journaling too! [well it's actually ext2 with journaling].

    So what's the big advantage of xfs over ext3?

    Tom

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  4. You know, it really pisses me off! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I spend the time and effort to post some lame or possibly funny troll and the next think I know it's modded +4 Insightful. What the hell am I supposed to do when obvious trolls are being modded Insightful. Slashdot really pisses me off anymore.

  5. Vendor pressure by NicolaiBSD · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Interesting about this is that Marcelo didn't want to merge big patches like this anymore. It seems he has given in to vendor pressure (SGI whining because competiting filesystems like JFS are in the kernel).
    It will be interesting to see how much influence major companies will gain in decisions on the main kernel tree as their contributions grow.

  6. the ext3 vs XFS article in English. by golan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Here is the same article, but in English.