On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Lars Erik Gullerud wrote: > >Ext3fs appears to have some advantages, easy migration from and to > >ext2fs, shrinkable, data journalling, data ordering (write data blocks > >before the file metadata is written) and so on. > > ...and this has what to do with the fact that FreeBSD now supports XFS? I was wondering if the way from ext2fs to ext3fs might have been shorter, code-wise. I will skip lots of good points in defense of XFS, and I really don't mind it being supported by XFS (in fact I'm looking forward to write support). > >I don't mean this should become an advocacy discussion, as XFS surely > >has advantages, too, real-time capability and so on - but ext2fs is > >already there and has write support. > > Then use ext2fs. Isn't the availability of multiple choices great? Yes, it is :-) -- Matthias AndreeReceived on Sat Dec 17 2005 - 13:16:10 UTC
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