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I like both XFS and JFS filesystems. I have used both on and off with Arch Linux and I've never had a bit of problem with either. Some people don't fancy them b
by RexRollman 15y ago
I like both XFS and JFS filesystems. I have used both on and off with Arch Linux and I've never had a bit of problem with either. Some people don't fancy them because they are in maintenance mode now but, frankly, I would rather use a finished and maintained filesystem over something that is in constant development (unless the new filesystem in development provides something truly unique).
I think the one thing I miss from BeOS (my all-time favorite OS along with Nextstep) was BeFS. It was nice to be able to create arbitrary file metadata and then have it indexed and searchable in real time. Does any Linux FS have this capability? I believe that XFS supports extended metadata but from what understand it is not something one can search on.
- danudey 15y agoYou can't inherently search on it (i.e the filesystem doesn't manage its own index) but it would be trivial (with something like inotify or its successors) to write an app to monitor the filesystem for metadata changes and index them itself. This is how Spotlight works on OS X, with HFS+'s arbitrary metadata - the spotlight daemon watches for FS events and updates its index when a change occurs. I strongly suspect that this is actually what was happening in BeOS as well, at least on some level. It would be surprising to me if the filesystem itself was also what maintained the index; it seems like this would reduce write throughput if it had to update the indexes all the time as well.
- wmf 15y agoI think GNOME Tracker and Zeitgeist are going in this direction.
- wazoox 15y agoI wouldn't say XFS is in maintenance mode, it received important enhancements in the recent past, and significant performance gains.