Re: [SLUG] Reiser4

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Fri Sep 28 2007 - 18:10:51 EDT


On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Mike Branda wrote:

> Ian C. Blenke wrote:
>> Mike Branda wrote:
>>
>>> Have you ever had to use xfs_check or xfs_repair? How good are they? XFS
>>> formats out with the same 932GB as Reiserfs so that's good. I know Apple
>>> uses a version of XFS but I haven't had any experience with JFS. Any
>>> reason to use it over XFS?
>>
>> Yes. I've used xfs_repair numerous times, and I've really had great success
>> with it.
>>
>> Apple doesn't have a version of XFS that I'm aware of, they _do_ have ZFS
>> in the Leopard betas (10.5) which might be out soon.
>
> Sorry, I was confusing HFS with XFS. My Bad.

Make sure you don't confuse HFS.Apple with HFS.SGI (or was it HFS.HP?).
AFAIK, neither HFS nor HFS+ (from Apple) is case-sensitive, and OSX breaks
in interesting ways if you use a filesystem that is.

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