XFS In Dapper [previously posted to ubuntu-users]

[Adam McGreggor]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:35:07PM +0000, Adam McGreggor wrote:

What I meant to say was...

> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 09:21:07PM -0800, Nick Webb wrote:
> > Hi All -
> > 
> > I posted this question to the ubuntu-users list perviously, but this 
> > seems like the proper list to post to (I just discovered this list).
> > 
> > I've got a couple projects coming up that will have a file systems >= 
> > 2TB and I'm thinking of using XFS for it.  Main feature of XFS I need is 
> > the lack of fsck at startup (fsck for ext2/3 will take many hours with a 
> > 2TB partition).  The file system will also likely have many large files, 
> > so XFS seems to be a good choice for this as well.

(just as a suggestion): perhaps disable fsck at bootime, via tune2fs ?