[GRLUG] WMNTUG Windows 7 Meeting

[Bob Kline]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Raymond McLaughlin
<driveray at ameritech.net>wrote:

> Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 13:55 -0400, john-thomas richards wrote:
> >> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:46:40PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> >>>> on boot when ext3 hit its 35-mount automatic fsck. (On a rather full
> >>>> 1TB drive, that can take long enough so as to look like it's not
> >>>> getting anywhere...)
> >>> Ugh, I know!  You can change that with tune2fs.
> >> How necessary is this anymore?
> >
> > To delay, or control, the mandatory filesystem check that occurs every X
> > number of mounts.  On large filesystems this can take a very long time
> > and on laptops it can just be down right annoying.
>
> This is why XFS is my filesystem of choice, especially for large
> volumes. Some folks like to stick with a small ext3 volume for the OS
> itself, and there are valid reasons for this selection. But for big
> (>30G) filesystems XFS is really the way to go.
>
> Raymond McLaughlin
>
>
Please elaborate.  XFS can be checked
much faster, but  just as thoroughly in
some sense?  What are the "valid reasons?"
As in, I don't know  a thing about it, so a
small word salad about what it is, and its
virtues and advantages over ext3, would
be appreciated.

Hasn't ext4 started to be used in Linux?
Anyone know what it offers in the way
of improvements over ext3, and the rest
of the world of file systems?

Yes, these questions can be about as
annoying to answer as "how are you?",
or "What's up?"  But helpful to some of
us.

    -- Bob
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