Journal Thagg's Journal: Every 2 years, whether I need it or not, I update my journal 3
It's been a wild couple of years. We've done a lot of work on some big films, but the biggest one was The Chronicles of Riddick. For that film, we had to grow the company to 60 people, and some 150 computers. It was by far the best work we'd ever done, but it was also by far the hardest project we've ever done.
We're now looking at a bunch of new projects, some big and some small. It's a pretty quiet time in the FX industry right now.
I'm excited about the new 2.6 kernel and all that comes with it -- it seems to address many performance issues we've had with Linux in the past -- especially in terms of disk and filesystem performance. Right new we're using Fedora Core 2, which has its good and bad points. It is very cutting edge, and has all the latest whiz-bang features -- but it also changes very quickly which can be scary in production.
Thad
file system (Score:2)
XFS and stuff (Score:2)
We actually had been using XFS very early on, but I was unhappy with the first Linux implementation in use. The machine that we deployed XFS on did not have significantly better performance than the EXT3 machines, and it was significantly more unreliable. Now, it's conceivable (maybe likely, in hindsight) that the unstableness of the system was hardware and not XFS related...
So, the answer is that for our last project we did not use XFS, but used EXT3 for our RAID arrays. I'