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

7 Jan 2005

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:30 , Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen
&lt;k.s.matheussen(a)notam02.no&gt; sent:

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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