On Thursday, April 14, 2011 11:30 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 4/14/2011 7:32 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: >> >> HAHAHAHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA >> >> The XFS codebase is the biggest pile of mess in the Linux kernel and you >> expect it to be not run into mysterious problems? Remember, XFS was >> PORTED over to Linux. It is not a 'native' thing to Linux. > > Well yeah, but the way I remember it, SGI was using it for real work > like video editing and storing zillions of files back when Linux was a > toy with a 2 gig file size limit and linear directory scans as the only > option. If you mean that the Linux side had a not-invented-here > attitude about it and did the port badly you might be right... > No, the XFS guys had to work around the differences between the Linux vm and IRIX's and that eventually led to what we have today - a big messy pile of code. It would be no surprise for there to be stuff that get triggered imho. I am not saying that XFS itself is bad. Just that the implementation on Linux was not quite the same quality as it is on IRIX.