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Re: NT vs Linux



Udi Finkelstein writes:

 > >    "Lack of a Journaling file system -
 > >    file system may not recover after
 > >    unplanned downtime"
 > >- Since I don't know of any journaling capabilities
 > >  of the ext2, I suppose they're right.
 > 
 > He He. SGI have just announced a few days ago they are open-sourcing their 64
 > bit journaling file system (no more 2GB limit on file size). Still no code
 > though. The actual code will appear later this year.

Unless it's released under the GPL (slim changes) it won't be possible
to inegrate it into the kernel, so it will have to remain as module in
which case it will be a pain to have an XFS root filesystem (you have
to go through all the pain of initrd). And anything that isn't in the
kernel doesn't get the amount of eyeballs staring upon it that
anything in the kernel does. (These are the moments when I pity that
Linux doesn't go under a BSD-style license after all...) So I think
that Linux still needs a proper 64 bit journaled FS, and Stephen
Tweedie is working on it (and supposed to release conde for testing
soon). Perhaps XFS can still help with design and implementation
*ideas*, though; once it's open-source there's no problem to steal
them.


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