Doesn't look like my reply hit the list for some reason. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com The point of the HPC scheduler is to keep everyone equally unhappy. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:35:20 -0700 (PDT) From: James A. Peltier <jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Ross Walker wrote: > I think it's worth while to keep xfs updated for a while until ext4 > has made enough of an in-road to say xfs should be depreciated in > favor of ext4. > > -Ross Considering that it still takes several minutes to format a partition with EXT4 vs the couple of seconds for XFS, I don't see XFS depricated *any* time soon. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com The point of the HPC scheduler is to keep everyone equally unhappy.