With the 2.4 release of Linux come many new filesystem possibilities, including Reiserfs, XFS, GFS, and others. These filesystems sound cool, but what exactly can they do, what are they good at, and exactly how do you go about safely using them in a production Linux environment? Daniel Robbins, CEO and president over at Gentoo Linux (and creator of the sophisticated Portage packaging system) answers these questions by showing you how to set up these new advanced filesystems under Linux 2.4. In this final installment (Part 10/10), Daniel shows you how to get XFS up and running on your system and explores some of XFS’s more advanced features. Recommended reading is also the previous article, Part 9, exploring XFS’s features over the other Linux filesystems. In a similar recent article, Bert Scalzo for Linux Jounral, benchmarks ReiserFS, JFS and ext2/3.
Advanced Filesystem Implementor’s Guide, Part 10
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Actually the benchmark is ReiserFS, JFS and ext2/3. They don’t touch XFS. Quite a shame really.
Does anybody know if it is possible to preserve the attributes of files if you backup your XFS files on a medium such as a CD ROM?
Yes, just use xfsdump and xfsrestore.
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue68/dellomodarme.html
the page covers Ext2, Ext3, XFS and ReiserFS
Cool! Thanks 🙂