[linux-audio-user] XFS on FC2; experiences, pointers?

[Jan Depner]

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 11:36, Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote:
> Barton Bosch:
> 
> >I'm going to be doing a fresh install of FC2 in the near future and
> >am considering using an XFS data partition for music and video files.
> >
> 
> Why not FC3?
> 
> 
> >It seems that XFS isn't an install time option (according to Disk
> >Druid). How is an XFS partition added?
> 
> At the fedora install cd boot-screen, write "linux xfs" instead
> of just pressing return.
> 
> 
> >Does anyone here have any
> >experiences or pointers to share WRT XFS or XFS and FC2?
> 
> 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.

Jan