Re: EFS in 2.3.2 ???

Tor Arntsen (tor@spacetec.no)
Mon, 17 May 1999 16:54:21 +0200

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Matthew Kirkwood <weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> writes:
>It's the extent-based filesystem from Irix 5.x.
>
>Interestingly, I don't see anything about it having to be read-only.
>(Not that I looked too hard.) If it is read/write, how does it perform
>against ext2?

I wouldn't bother. EFS doesn't support holes in files.
EFS is useful for using a Linux box for CDROMs when you don't have a CDROM
on your SGI box (SGI uses EFS on their CDs), and it's also useful when
you're working with porting Linux to Indys and such.

-Tor

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