Fair enough, I was just curious because I had never heard of anyone using xfs on anything other than Solaris. I might have to read up on xfs... sounds interesting. -Adam <div>On 12/27/06, Michael Lueck <<a href="mailto:mlueck@lueckdatasystems.com">mlueck@lueckdatasystems.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Adam Miller wrote: > I have to ask, why the use of xfs? xfs was built with performance for any of various types of file system loads in mind. Many files (small or large) in one directory. Great big huge files. etc... It also has built-in dump/restore tools, thus no fight with multiple OSS/FS teams to arrive at a total storage solution. -- Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems <a href="http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/">http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/</a> -- xubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel </a> </blockquote></div> -- -=:Max:=- --OpenPGP key: 5DBFA065--