which file system to use

[Alexander Skwar]

· David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com>:
> ubuntu at rio.vg writes:

>> The more important part of the quote though, was the "late 2006"
>> estimation on adding it to the boot possibilities of Solaris.  This
>> suggests that it is still not a mature system on Solaris.
> 
> I guess it depends how you measure "mature."  Is LVM mature yet?
> 'cause if I'm not mistaken, you still can't use an LVM logical volume
> for /boot on Linux.

You can, but not with grub. Thus, grub isn't mature ;)

>> Yes.  This means the filesystem will be slower, 
> 
> ...than it would be otherwise, yes.  How it will fare against other
> filesystems remains to be measured.

Guts feeling: It'll slower.

> Maybe not needless.  At least, I'd like to know the details.  From
> what I've read from "Linux people" who've been looking at the
> OpenSolaris code, its standard of quality is far above what they've
> been given to expect.

But does that mean, that the quality is high? ;)

Alexander Skwar
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