From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay3.corp.sgi.com [198.149.34.15]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2571A7F6A for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 20:50:51 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by relay3.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3AF3AC001 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:50:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from benjamin.baylink.com (rrcs-24-129-180-187.se.biz.rr.com [24.129.180.187]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id huZBXsrCsUMGa0Pu for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by benjamin.baylink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 134121F0090B for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 21:50:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from benjamin.baylink.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (benjamin.baylink.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MR7RZ3rgX8cX for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 21:50:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from benjamin.baylink.com (benjamin.baylink.com [192.168.253.10]) by benjamin.baylink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3B3C1F008DC for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 21:50:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 21:50:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Jay Ashworth Message-ID: <6559720.2408.1374976243593.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com> In-Reply-To: <043835EA-08D4-4945-92F0-173BFE2C604C@gmail.com> Subject: Re: A short digression on FOSS (Re: understanding speculative preallocation) MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: xfs@oss.sgi.com ----- Original Message ----- > From: "aurfalien" > > If Dave thinks *that* question is out of bounds, then when I do my > > rotating reformat to recover from my recent power supply induced > > crash, XFS will not be the file system I pick off the pulldown menu > > to reformat with. > > Well, you'll be missing out. Who cares what any one thinks in terms of > Free vs Fee paradigms, XFS is simply a rockin FS. You bet; we've put dozens of TB on and off it in 9 years of running MythTV. And in the 2 instances where it's blown its brains out, Dave, in particular, has been very helpful in putting it back together; it's a little unnerving, actually, to look the handle up after an IRC chat and discover you had the lead dev on the phone. > I was really intrigued by his and Linus's back and forth not to long > ago, some great knowledge for sure. I was watching that; I didn't see it end. Did it? > This list is great so filter whats applicable and toss the rest in a > bit bucket. As it happens, though, My Sister's DVR is *not* the only machine with Really Big Filesystems on it*, and it really does matter to me what the development policies are on critical subsystems like this; hence my query above. I really really *love* SuSE, after 8 years, but they've made a critical change I simply can't tolerate for commercial use, and I'm going to have to pick a new distro. (And anyone who says "well, just switch to SLES" either forgets that that's $1200/server/year, or forgets where Linux came from in the first place...) CentOS is the only thing that's anywhere close. * ... for which I'm responsible ... Cheers -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs