On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > Mark Allums put forth on 4/26/2010 3:22 AM: >> On 4/26/2010 2:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> Mark Allums put forth on 4/25/2010 1:19 AM: >> >> Sorry Stan, Your defense of XFS has put me into troll mode. It's a >> reflex. I don't buy it, but I shouldn't troll. >> >> I think you are confusing what is with what should be. > > A'ight, you forced me to pull out the big gun. Choke on it. The master > penguin himself, kernel.org, has run on XFS since 2008. Sorry for the body > slam. Is your back ok Mark? ;) Pretty sure I just "won" this discussion. > Err, actually, XFS wins. ;) BTW, the main Debian mirror in the U.S. is > actually housed in kernel.org last I checked. Thus, the files on your > system were very likely originally served from XFS. > > The Linux Kernel Archives > > "A bit more than a year ago (as of October 2008) kernel.org, in an ever > increasing need to squeeze more performance out of it's machines, made the > leap of migrating the primary mirror machines (mirrors.kernel.org) to XFS. > We site a number of reasons including fscking 5.5T of disk is long and > painful, we were hitting various cache issues, and we were seeking better > performance out of our file system." > > "After initial tests looked positive we made the jump, and have been quite > happy with the results. With an instant increase in performance and > throughput, as well as the worst xfs_check we've ever seen taking 10 > minutes, we were quite happy. Subsequently we've moved all primary mirroring > file-systems to XFS, including www.kernel.org , and mirrors.kernel.org. With > an average constant movement of about 400mbps around the world, and with > peaks into the 3.1gbps range serving thousands of users simultaneously it's > been a file system that has taken the brunt we can throw at it and held up > spectacularly." > > http://www.xfs.org/index.php/XFS_Companies#The_Linux_Kernel_Archives Hello Stan,
Why Debian Installer doesn't change its default filesystem to xfs if it is better than ext3 / ext4? I think always is better stick to defaults if it is possible Thanks for your explications ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/r2g81c921f31004260456z3c6f41ddg86e45cdae1257...@mail.gmail.com
