[nzlug] Dell are sooo pwn3d

[Liam Farr]

>From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFS

XFS has been merged into the mainline Linux<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux>
2.4 (as of 2.4.25, when Marcelo
Tosatti<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Tosatti>judged it stable
enough) and
2.6 kernels, making it almost universally available on Linux systems.
Installation programs for the SuSE <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuSE>,
Gentoo <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Linux>,
Mandriva<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandriva>,
Slackware <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackware>, Kate
OS<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_OS>,
Zenwalk <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenwalk>,
*Ubuntu*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Linux>and
Debian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian> Linux
distributions<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distributions>all
offer XFS as a choice of filesystem.


On 29/06/07, Toby Collett <tcollett+lists at plan9.net.nz> wrote:
>
> 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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