Linux dot com is reporting this shocking news. Well, if I needed another excuse to move away from ReiserFS to the joys of XFS, I've found it!
I've planned a massive migration of my servers to XFS for some time now. Almost everything I run on Linux is deployed over SGI's XFS and I'm very happy with the results. Mount & fsck times have dropped considerably, but keep in mind that power failures cause a lot of file system corruptions on XFS volumes. Remember redundancy is your friend. On the other hand, the system responds very fast while accessing large (i.e. over 700MB) files.
Side note, I'd love to see ZFS ported to Linux (I know it's just a wish for the time being but someone actually ported Dtrace to BSD so...). It's the most powerful file system developed yet. If I get the cash flow to migrate completely to AMD64 patfroms the obvious evolutionary step would be to move my services to Solaris on Raid-Z volumes.
For a comprehensive comparison of Linux file systems, you may want to look here.
I've planned a massive migration of my servers to XFS for some time now. Almost everything I run on Linux is deployed over SGI's XFS and I'm very happy with the results. Mount & fsck times have dropped considerably, but keep in mind that power failures cause a lot of file system corruptions on XFS volumes. Remember redundancy is your friend. On the other hand, the system responds very fast while accessing large (i.e. over 700MB) files.
Side note, I'd love to see ZFS ported to Linux (I know it's just a wish for the time being but someone actually ported Dtrace to BSD so...). It's the most powerful file system developed yet. If I get the cash flow to migrate completely to AMD64 patfroms the obvious evolutionary step would be to move my services to Solaris on Raid-Z volumes.
For a comprehensive comparison of Linux file systems, you may want to look here.
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