<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 5, 2007, at 9:05 PM, Steve Hodge wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">On 2/6/07, <B class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</B> <<A href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</A>> wrote:<DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote"></SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I wondered why you were using XFS. If it's the long erase time<BR>problem JFS will help that, as will the "slow erases" in Myth 0.20.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>Is there any reason not to use xfs? I've been using it without any issues - should I be considering switching to something else? <BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>I really don't know too much about it. There were some complaints about it a while back but I think they were mostly problems when the filesystem started to get full, which you say you know about. Check the list archives if you want to look into that.<BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I've read that the "conventional wisdom" is to use JFS but that was a magazine article that had some other questionable stuff in it so I'd investigate myself. The main thing was, I think, that JFS could delete large files quickly, less important now with the slow erases.</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>