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