Re: Linux filesystems was [Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.]

I have done some testing with Debian stable in Virtualbox and I have
to say XFS works as advertised. I did power off the virtual machine
several times when working in Gnome / copying files. And I did power
off the virtual 5 times in a row when booting. Nothing happened. Each
time the virtual machine booted without problems.

I have to say, file system creating and file system checking is
lightning fast. I am very impressed. Next I'll test XFS on my laptop.


dmesg
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[ 5.182230] sda: sda1 sda2
[ 5.183801] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ 5.324028] PM: Starting manual resume from disk
[ 5.333377] SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large
block numbers, no debug enabled
[ 5.334413] SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
[ 5.335916] XFS mounting filesystem sda2
[ 5.420162] Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: sda2 (logdev: internal)
[ 5.439531] Ending XFS recovery on filesystem: sda2 (logdev: internal)
[ 6.796197] udevd version 125 started
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