From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: XFS?
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:00:13 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209121500.g8CF0D30003216@darkstar.example.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200209121542.21987.martin.knoblauch@mscsoftware.com> from "Martin Knoblauch" at Sep 12, 2002 03:42:21 PM
> In my opinion the non-inclosure in the mainline kernel is the most
> important reason not to use XFS (or any other FS). Which in turn
> massively reduces the tester base. It is a shame, because for some type
> of applications it performs great, or better than anything else.
On the other hand, filesystem corruption bugs are one of the worst type to suffer from. We absolutely don't want to include filesystems without at least a reasonable proven track record in the mainline kernel, and therefore encourage the various distributions to use them, incase any bugs do show up. Look how long a buffer overflow existed in Zlib unnoticed.
EXT2 is a very capable filesystem, and has *years* of proven reliability. That's why I'm not going to switch away from it for critical work any time soon.
John.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-12 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-12 13:42 XFS? Martin Knoblauch
2002-09-12 15:00 ` jbradford [this message]
2002-09-13 11:53 ` XFS? Bill Davidsen
2002-09-13 12:27 ` XFS? jbradford
2002-09-13 13:21 ` XFS? jlnance
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2002-09-13 10:52 XFS? Kostadin Karaivanov
2002-09-13 10:57 ` XFS? Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-13 7:47 XFS? Ivan Ivanov
2002-09-13 9:32 ` XFS? Nero
2002-09-13 10:22 ` XFS? Ivan Ivanov
2002-09-13 11:07 ` XFS? Filip Van Raemdonck
2002-09-13 12:42 ` XFS? Hans Reiser
2002-09-13 9:53 ` XFS? Remco Post
2002-09-13 11:38 ` XFS? Hans Reiser
2002-09-13 12:47 ` XFS? Jesse Pollard
2002-09-13 13:33 ` XFS? Ian S. Nelson
[not found] <3D80CCEF.7070007@tmsusa.com>
2002-09-12 17:53 ` XFS? jbradford
[not found] <200209121553.g8CFrrEh003646@dstl.gov.uk>
2002-09-12 16:03 ` XFS? Tony Gale
2002-09-13 5:58 ` XFS? Tomas Szepe
2002-09-12 15:27 XFS? Martin Knoblauch
2002-09-12 15:53 ` XFS? jbradford
2002-09-12 17:06 ` XFS? Thunder from the hill
2002-09-12 17:28 ` XFS? Joe Kellner
2002-09-12 17:44 ` XFS? Thunder from the hill
2002-09-12 17:54 ` XFS? Joe Kellner
2002-09-12 17:09 ` XFS? Bernd Petrovitsch
2002-09-12 17:45 ` XFS? Thunder from the hill
2002-09-12 13:54 XFS? Martin Knoblauch
[not found] <1059487013@toto.iv>
2002-09-11 0:31 ` XFS? Peter Chubb
[not found] <20020909193820.GA2007@lnuxlab.ath.cx.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209091457590.3793-100000@hawkeye.luckynet.adm.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-09-09 21:12 ` XFS? Andi Kleen
2002-09-09 21:20 ` XFS? Shawn
2002-09-09 21:27 ` XFS? Robert Love
2002-09-10 17:15 ` XFS? Mike Galbraith
2002-09-10 19:23 ` XFS? Shawn
2002-09-10 19:29 ` XFS? Robert Love
2002-09-10 19:33 ` XFS? Thunder from the hill
2002-09-11 0:33 ` XFS? Bryan Whitehead
2002-09-10 20:06 ` XFS? John Alvord
2002-09-10 20:17 ` XFS? Hans Reiser
2002-09-10 20:17 ` XFS? Joe Kellner
2002-09-10 20:26 ` XFS? David Lang
2002-09-10 20:31 ` XFS? Tomas Szepe
2002-09-11 2:34 ` XFS? Bernd Eckenfels
2002-09-10 22:18 ` XFS? Nick LeRoy
2002-09-10 20:34 ` XFS? Tomas Szepe
2002-09-10 21:01 ` XFS? Steve Lord
2002-09-11 8:43 ` XFS? jw schultz
2002-09-11 15:20 ` XFS? Nick LeRoy
2002-09-11 17:08 ` XFS? Hans Reiser
2002-09-11 18:24 ` XFS? Gerhard Mack
2002-09-11 18:54 ` XFS? Lorenzo Allegrucci
2002-09-12 18:25 ` XFS? Bryan Whitehead
2002-09-12 18:33 ` XFS? Nikita Danilov
2002-09-13 11:44 ` XFS? Bill Davidsen
2002-09-13 12:44 ` XFS? Hans Reiser
2002-09-13 15:47 ` XFS? Bill Davidsen
2002-09-12 23:38 ` XFS? Samuel Flory
2002-09-11 21:21 ` XFS? jw schultz
2002-09-11 22:41 ` XFS? Nick LeRoy
2002-09-11 23:01 ` XFS? Robert Varga
2002-09-12 2:48 ` XFS? jw schultz
2002-09-11 4:56 ` XFS? Mike Galbraith
2002-09-11 14:55 ` XFS? Shawn
2002-09-11 17:52 ` XFS? Mike Galbraith
2002-09-11 15:12 ` XFS? Bill Davidsen
2002-09-11 16:03 ` XFS? Alan Cox
2002-09-11 18:55 ` XFS? Eric Sandeen
2002-09-11 21:37 ` XFS? Alan Cox
2002-09-09 19:38 XFS? khromy
[not found] ` <3D7CFEE5.3030600@netscape.net>
2002-09-09 20:08 ` XFS? Wade
2002-09-09 20:16 ` XFS? Tomas Szepe
2002-09-09 20:43 ` XFS? Arador
2002-09-09 21:18 ` XFS? Shawn
2002-09-09 22:31 ` XFS? Rik van Riel
2002-09-10 6:23 ` XFS? Wade
2002-09-10 13:24 ` XFS? Gerhard Mack
2002-09-09 21:00 ` XFS? Thunder from the hill
2002-09-09 22:29 ` XFS? Joe Kellner
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