[GRLUG] WMNTUG Windows 7 Meeting

[Michael Mol]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Bruce Smith <blubdog at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This isn't happening until next month, but Ubuntu will have ext4 as
>>> default in 9.10
>>>
>> I've been using it in all of my 9.04 machines with no mishap to report
>> (yet.)
>
> Ditto, ext4 since 9.04 (April? :)  and no problems (yet).
>
> It also fixed a lot of problems I was having with xfs.
>
> My VMware virtual disk was previously on a xfs partition and my XP VM
> was so slow it was unusable.  Some research reviled problems with xfs
> handling large files.  Now, with ext4, vmware runs at an acceptable
> speed, and some other things seem to be faster too.

In case someone happens across this thread later, it's worth noting
that VMWare supports splitting disk images among files <=2GB in size,
which may bring it under the threshhold of large file performance
penalties for XFS. (I haven't used XFS or looked at its code, so I
can't be sure.)

BTW...You guys are nuts...I was driving from GRR to ATL
Tuesday-midnight to Wednesday afternoon, and my phone kept beeping
every couple minutes saying I had another new email.  I thought I'd
started some kind of flamewar by semi-defending Windows.  Instead, I
find a very interesting discussion of filesystems. :)

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