On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Christian Brunner <chb@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > reading the list archives, I get the impression that XFS is the second > best alternative to btrfs. But when I start an ceph-osd on an XFS > volume, there is still a big warning: > > WARNING: not btrfs or ext3. We don't currently support file systems other > than btrfs and ext3 (data=journal or data=ordered). Data may be > lost in the event of a crash. Wow, that's an old warning. > I know that I can't use btrfs snapshots, but is it really that bad? No. Just ignore it; I made bug 1995 to do something with that warning. xfs is perfectly data-safe (or at least Ceph uses data-safe semantics with it :p), and how it performs under different workloads is something we need to benchmark. -Greg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html