A buddy of mine works at Matrix Semi (where Shiv used to work.) He knows
both authors of the below mentioned white paper and assures me they are both
very bright. Smarter than he is. :)
It's worth mentioning that XFS was developed by SGI and is considered to be
a very mature and stable product. I've been using it ever since it was
ported to Linux and have been very happy with it. You'll find it's following
to be somewhat religious.
The debate about distro's of Linux can rage on until the end of time, but I
second the previous message about Mandrake being more user-friendly (I use
it.) It has better install and maintenance apps. In my experience, during
initial install, it finds your hardware and installs drivers for it more
successfully than RedHat.
RedHat is moving more towards the server end, as mentioned before, and
sometimes it's hard to get a bead on what they're intending to do. Mandrake
has been doing the same thing forever and in my opinion is more
stable/supported.
For this discussion, it may be more apples vs oranges. Running a Perforce
server is going to be more commandline oriented anyway, so pretty gui apps
to install new CD burners may not make a difference to you. You may as well
go with whichever one more readily available to you.
-Matthew Janulewicz
Alaris Medical Systems Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Cowham [mailto:robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:30 PM
To: 'Gary Sanders'; 'Marc Lewert'; perforce-user@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [p4] Linux and Filesystem Preferences
Check out the talk by Shiv Sikand at last years user conference:
http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conf2003/index.html#filesystems
He recommends XFS.
Check out http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conf2003/index.html#swamp too.
Robert
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:perforce-user-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gary Sanders
> Sent: 27 January 2004 20:53
> To: 'Marc Lewert'; perforce-user@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [p4] Linux and Filesystem Preferences
>
>
> For the most part, Mandrake is more user oriented. It's
> friendlier, and
> easier to setup and maintain. RedHat is a bit more server
> oriented, and
> they have an Enterprise edition. That said, they're both
> Linux. After
> using RedHat for a long time, I switched to Mandrake for myself.
>
> As for the file systems, check out this page... And add one
> to your list:
> ReiserFS. I heard a lot of good things about ReiserFS.
>
http://oregonstate.edu/~kveton/fs/
Cheers!
Gary
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Lewert [mailto:marc@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 11:49 AM
> To: perforce-user@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [p4] Linux and Filesystem Preferences
>
>
> Does anyone know of major differences between Mandrake and
> Red Hat Linux?
>
> I am also looking at the differences between XFS, JFS, and
> EXT3 as far
> as performance on a Perforce server.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> marc
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