On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Peter [windows-1252] Kjellström wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 August 2006 06:13, Mark Strong wrote:
> > Hi All, after looking around for info on XFS(the filesystem) and its use
> > on CentOS and/or RHEL 4. There seems to be a lot of noise about 4K
> > Stacks (especially on linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx).
> >
> > ...
> >
> > >You don't want to use the XFS in the centosplus kernel. It has major
> > >known issues with 4K stacks (leading to overflows). Use the
> > >kernel-module-xfs (or somesuch) RPM instead, and you should have better
> > >luck.
>
> I don't have a full answer for you, what happen probably depends alot on both
> hardware and software configuration and load. But, I'll second the above
> statement, don't use the xfs module as shipped with the centosplus kernel
> (afaict it's still vanilla from 2.6.9 and it did break for me when I tested)
> but go with the kernel-module-xfs package.
>
> We've been running ~5 servers and ~10T on centos with the stand-alone module
> for quite some time and seen no problems (nfs serving on x86_64 using 3ware
> cards for storage) YMMW...
XFS works alot better on x86_64 kernels as they have 8k stacks.
-Connie Sieh
>
> /Peter
>
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