XFS filesystem support in Fedora

Randy Kelsoe randykel at swbell.net
Sat Nov 8 00:47:49 UTC 2003


Florin Andrei wrote:

>Dunno if it's a conscious effort or simply a coincidence, but Red Hat
>just seems terribly opaque to any suggestion of including XFS support.
>Unlike other distributions ;-) which were happy to include it, at least
>as an "experimental" feature.
>
Anytime I posted a question about adding XFS, I got nothing from RedHat.

>
>That's too bad, since XFS is very good at handling read/write to/from
>very large files, when other FSs have a rather poor performance. Anyone
>who tried to author DVDs knows what i'm talking about.
>
Not to mention acl's and xfsdump. :)







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