Mark Hahn wrote:
from my position, XFS was a semi-fringe option for people who distrusted
ext3 for some reason. (and there were a few solid ones, mainly just
>8TB.) going forward, I expect to use ext4
Hmmmm... rather odd view. xfs has been around quite a bit longer than
ext3. It has been, realistically, the only serious choice for big/fast
data systems on Linux for quite some time. Ext3 has some serious
performance limits due to its journaling design. Never mind its other
issues. There was mention of this in this past week's LWN.net.
I wouldn't use ext3 for anything other than small partitions (100 GB or
so). Too many cases seeing the fsck need to get triggered for some
reason ... the wait is horrible.
and probably btrfs; I don't see a lasting impact of XFS.
I don't see many people moving hundreds of TB off XFS onto something
without a really good reason (and other people running into the other
things bugs).
if IBM did buy Sun and made an effort to get ZFS Linux-ized
(Linus-ized), it would be interesting. especially if they also did so
with Lustre.
btrfs is interesting, and it looks like it will be a very important FS
player. ext4 looks like it will become the ext3 of the next 5 years.
There, a default for some, but not what you should use for big/fast data.
Zfs is not the revealed word of some deity, in file systems. This mind
set is painful to deal with, and often winds up with people having
*very* unrealistic expectations of what it is, what it can do, and how
it performs. Our experience in speaking to customers about it, suggests
that the primary reason why there is interest in it, is ease of
management. There are some who are interested in the data integrity
bits. This said, it ain't perfect. It has bugs, and people have been
bitten by them.
All file systems have bugs.
Anyone saying something different is trying to sell you something.
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