From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephan von Krawczynski Subject: Re: Some very basic questions Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:46:34 +0200 Message-ID: <20081022134634.573aa57f.skraw@ithnet.com> References: <20081021132322.271ad728.skraw@ithnet.com> <1224597580.27474.93.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> <20081021182710.a12f4914.skraw@ithnet.com> <87iqrlevf5.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Chris Mason , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Andi Kleen Return-path: In-Reply-To: <87iqrlevf5.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> List-ID: On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:59:26 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote: > Stephan von Krawczynski writes: > > > > Yes, we hear and say that all the time, name one linux fs doing it, please. > > ext[234] support it to some extent. It has some limitations > (especially when the files are large and you shouldn't do too much followon > IO to prevent the data from being overwriten) and the user frontends are not > very nice, but it it's there Well, they must be pretty ugly, I really never heard of that. But really, it is not very important, because extX is completely useless with TB-size disks unless you feel good waiting hours for fsck (I did, and will never do again). _All_ customers we deployed ext3 urged us to go back to reiserfs3 ... > -Andi -- Regards, Stephan