Re: XFS in the main kernel

Martin Knoblauch (Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de)
Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:55:36 +0200

Peter Wächtler wrote:
>
> Martin Knoblauch wrote:
> >>Re: XFS in the main kernel
> >>
> >
> > so, what were the main obstacles again? The VFS layer?
> >
>
> The VFS and such features like "delayed block allocation". XFS tries
> to gather 64K or so before submitting to disk/block layer.
>
> FWIW, SuSE 8 ships with full (but experimental marked) XFS support.

Definitely a step forward. But some people (including myself, I guess)
do not like distribution kernels. Yeah, hard to please - I know :-). I
use SuSE on the desktop, but not because of the kernel. I use RedHat on
servers and compute nodes, but not because of the kernel.

Martin
PS: Thanks for the hint. I didn't realize it when I upgraded to 8.0.

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