[aklug] Re: XFS (was: Re: Question regarding paritioning and drive space)

From: Mike Tibor <tibor@tibor.org>
Date: Mon Apr 06 2009 - 14:13:10 AKDT

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Arthur Corliss wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Mike Tibor wrote:
>
>> I know of no other fs on Linux that will allow you to grow a partition
>> while it's still mounted, so that alone is enough for me to love XFS.
>> However it's also one of the best performing filesystems available for
>> Linux. There are some things you can tweak with ext3 that can help quite
>> a bit but from the comparisons I've seen, even optimized for highest
>> performance it still falls short of XFS.
>
> While I'm a XFS-fanboy as well, I believe JFS supports this functionality as
> well.

On AIX it does naturally, but I didn't think it did on Linux. Of course
that was back around 1998 - 2000, so maybe it didn't back then but does
now. Of course there's the distinct possibility that I'm on crack and it
always did. :-)

Mike
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