[nzlug] Dell are sooo pwn3d

[Toby Collett]

As far as I am aware Ubuntu does support XFS, at least the Ubuntu server I
am developing with at the moment has an XFS root file system...guess it was
just bad luck with the setup.

Toby


On 6/29/07, Craig Box <craig at dubculture.co.nz> wrote:
>
> > Not really a fair comparison as XFS is not a native filesystem of OSX or
> > Windows and therefore one should not expect support there. Why do you
> > consider XFS is a "non-standard configuration" (apart from the fact that
> > Ubuntu doesn't support it;) )? As far as I know XFS is a native Linux
> > filesystem, and is fairly common in some sectors so therefore should be
> > supported as it is on other distributions.
>
> With a finite amount of support, and a perfectly serviceable file system
> otherwise available, how much developer and support effort should be
> diverted from other tasks to support this?  And ReiserFS?  And JFS?  Etc
> etc
> etc..
>
> Too much choice is a bad thing.
>
> Craig
>
>
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