Doesn't look like my reply hit the list for some reason.
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The point of the HPC scheduler is to
keep everyone equally unhappy.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:35:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: James A. Peltier <jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca>
To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
Subject: Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Ross Walker wrote:
> I think it's worth while to keep xfs updated for a while until ext4
> has made enough of an in-road to say xfs should be depreciated in
> favor of ext4.
>
> -Ross
Considering that it still takes several minutes to format a partition with EXT4
vs the couple of seconds for XFS, I don't see XFS depricated *any* time
soon.
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James A. Peltier
Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director
Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus
Phone : 778-782-6573
Fax : 778-782-3045
E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca
Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca
http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier
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The point of the HPC scheduler is to
keep everyone equally unhappy.
On Apr 17, 2009, at 5:01 PM, "James A. Peltier" <jpeltier at fas.sfu.ca> wrote:> > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Ross Walker wrote: > >> I think it's worth while to keep xfs updated for a while until ext4 >> has made enough of an in-road to say xfs should be depreciated in >> favor of ext4. >> >> -Ross > > Considering that it still takes several minutes to format a > partition with EXT4 > vs the couple of seconds for XFS, I don't see XFS depricated *any* > time soon.Time to format isn't really an issue as it is done once before being put into production. The biggest concern is processing performance and time to fsck as well as data integrity and recoverability. Besides XFS allocates inodes on the fly, that's why it's so fast formatting, but why ext4 is a little faster processing. -Ross