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____/ Gregory Shearman on Saturday 25 Jun 2011 00:00 : \____
> On 2011-06-24, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Linux Filesystems LOC
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>>| The XFS filesystem has taken a beating for being a
>>| big, complicated, foreign filesystem since itâs
>>| introduction, and there is no doubt that there is
>>| a fair bit of code in there. But an interesting
>>| thing happened on the way to the Linux Kernel v3.0.0 -
>>| XFS developers have steadily reduced lines of code,
>>| while other up and coming filesystems such as Ext4 and
>>| BTRFS are steadily growing in LOC and complexity.
>>| And XFS has been under constant improvement at the same time as well.
>> `----
>
>> http://sandeen.net/wordpress/?p=532
>
> I've used XFS and found it very useful for handling *very* large files,
> eg more than 1GB. I used it to store TV record files for my mythtv box.
> The speed in which it deletes files makes it very useful for this task.
Compare that to proprietary operating systems which pretend one FS fits
all. It just doesn't work that way.
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