--- Pete <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> For those of you not familiar with file systems available on Linux,
> the most popular ones are:  the original "ext2" which morphed into 
> the current "ext3" journaled filesystem; "jfs" is a filesystem 
> written and supported by IBM; "reiserfs" is designed by a highly 
> intelligent and hard to deal with geek by  the name of Reiser; 
> and "xfs" (not to be confused with "xfs" the X font server), the file

> system developed by SGI for Irix OS and ported to Linux which I 
> believe is now the primary development platform.  XFS is a large
> scale and high performance file system with just about every file
> system capability I can imagine.  Here is the web link:
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/
> 
> There is little, if anything, that a business application needs to
> know about XFS, but it is good to know that no one is going to run 
> out of capacity with it, and all of its capabilities are 
> available "behind the wall" to PM programmers and 3rd party 
> developers.  Some functionality could be exposed through SM 
> intrinsics and utilities also.

before i say anything, i want to make it clear that i am speaking for
myself only....not openmpe's board.

i have to question the appropriateness of this posting.  it sounds like
a solution with no real design is being pushed.  a technology is being
advocated without any checks or balances.

if nothing else, full disclosure (talk about what's bad as well as
what's good) would be better than painting a scene of technological
nirvana.            - d

Donna Hofmeister, HP-CSA  Sr. System Programmer
dgarverick -at- longs -dot- com
925-210-6631              Longs Drug Stores

>>>MY opinions, not Longs Drug Stores'<<<

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