[Samba] what's the best filesystem

James Peach jorgar at gmail.com
Thu Oct 6 06:11:22 GMT 2005


On 10/6/05, Eric A. Hall <ehall at ehsco.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/4/2005 7:17 PM, mourik jan c heupink wrote:
>
> > I like xfs, specially with quota. (and using acl's here as well)
> >
> > with xfs you never have to run the check_quota (or whatever the command
> > is...) This makes a rebooting after a crash *much* faster.
>
> that was one of the things I liked about, and replaying the journal was
> nice too.
>
> one of the problems I had a couple of years back was that it wasn't
> bootable (had to boot a mini-kernel off a fat partition, then load the xfs
> modules). they've fixed that buy now I assume.

That might depend on yr distro. I've used XFS root partitions on
Ubuntu 5.04, SLES9 and OpenSUSE without any problems.

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