On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Meir Litmanovich wrote:
> XFS is logged filesystem - which means you can power-off
> the system at the middle of activity and no file-system
> damage will be caused, so - no fsck and file-system
> corruption sheet. (BTW - it still do not prevents you from damage
> to user files)
> XFS can promise file-access and file-read speed - it means
> that no matter what's going on - you'll receive your X Mbp/s
> from the filesystem - that is extremely important in
> "near realtime" enviroments, as well as enterprise
> ones.
ISTR that XFS is also extent based and ext2fs is block based. XFS also
allows 64 bit file sizes and filesystem sizes, I'm not sure about ext2fs.
Feel free to correct me, ICBW.
Regards,
Nir.
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