On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:30 , Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen
<k.s.matheussen@notam02.no> sent:

>
>Jan Depner:
>>> I just had a bad experience with FC3 nfs-exporting an XFS partition.
>>> Very unstable. However, it only happens when exporting the filesystem
>>> as nfs. I searched the web, and it seems like the bug is not in the
>>> xfs filesystem, but somewhere else in the 2.6 kernel triggered by
>>> the combination of xfs and nfs. (My "solution" to the problem was to use
>>> reiserfs)
>>>
>>> So please, don't be scared by my experience unless you are going to
>>> nfs-export the partition. It should be a safe and stable filesystem.
>>>
>>    Interesting.  We're running five 3.5TB servers with FC3 and xfs with
>>no problems.
>
>Really? I could hardly boot with that combination. Its a 1.25TB server
>using an Intel srcs16 controller. Tried both kernel 2.6.9-1.667smp
>and 2.6.9-1.667. Which kernel and controller are you using?
>(The machine is still not set into production, and I would like to have
>it running xfs if possible.)
>
>

Linux alh-pogo5 2.6.9-1.667smp #1 SMP Tue Nov 2 14:59:52 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linux

Dual 3GHz Xeons, Dual PCI bus, 8GB memory, two 3ware 9500 controllers.

Jan