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Skeet
May 23rd, 2008, 03:03 AM
I am reformatting my Ubuntu installation (I messed up and it won't start anything properly anymore, and its well overdue).

I have been reading that XFS is alot quicker and more efficient than EXT3. The only down side is that XFS requires Lilo boot loader and doesnt support Grub.

Is there much difference between the two bootloaders and whats the performance difference between XFS and EXT3?

iaculallad
May 23rd, 2008, 03:08 AM
I am reformatting my Ubuntu installation (I messed up and it won't start anything properly anymore, and its well overdue).

I have been reading that XFS is alot quicker and more efficient than EXT3. The only down side is that XFS requires Lilo boot loader and doesnt support Grub.

Is there much difference between the two bootloaders and whats the performance difference between XFS and EXT3?

Go with this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=186651) for information regarding the XFS filesystem.