RE: journalling FS

["Vanco, Donald" <VANCOD PIOS com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ross A Knepper [mailto:rak@zk3.dec.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 8:12 AM
> To: axp-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: journalling FS
> 
> 
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Niki W. Waibel wrote:
> > does anyone know what happened with the jornaling fs from 
> sgi (xfs?) ?
> > reiserFS will have problems on alpha!
> > ... will the same happen with the stuff from sgi?
> 
> afaik, there isnt enough of xfs ported to linux to be able to
> tell.  however, since xfs runs on irix, which primarily runs 
> on MIPS, i
> suspect that alignment won't cause a problem.  how aware is 
> sgi of 64 bit
> issues?  your guess is as good as mine ...

	I've been running XFS on a partition on my laptop for about 2
months.  Development is going at what appears to be a decent pace.  Seems
stable to me (but has issues as evidenced by the mailing list) - but then,
I'm hardly stressing it.

rsync -av oss.sgi.com::cvs/linux-2.3-xfs

Don