On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:30 , Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@xxxxxxxxxx> sent: > >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
