On Saturday 22 August 2009, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Christian Fischer wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have not found a ext4-user list or something similar, that's why my > > user question goes to this development list. > > I think user questions are fine here, but thanks for asking. :) > > > I had a lot of file system crashes with xfs the last time, Eric knows > > that, if he remembers. > > > > I look for an alternate file system for our new production servers, and I > > need to use 2.6.29.4 for the moment due to all systems running on xen, > > and as far as I know 2.6.29.4 xen patched ist the best solution at the > > moment. > > > > I've updated all xen kernels from 2.6.18 (which is the latest official > > xen kernel) to 2.6.29.4 because xfs tried to write to the superblock to > > run into the next bug, a radix_tree problem with xfs over nfs. I've > > backported 2.6.30 patches to avoid the problem, that runs at the moment. > > > > But I don't feel like waiting for the next crash. > > > > I was never before as unshure as now which file system is to choose, IMO > > I have the choice between zfs on solaris, xfs or ext4. > > Zfs is not really ported to linux, the stable time of xfs seems gone, and > > ext4 is relatively young. Thanks Eric for the fast reply. > > I think the xfs problems are sorted; you hit a bad spot, but Christoph > got it worked out. Hmm, bad spot, I use xfs for years on a lot of servers, never any other, and that because of its stability, and its robustness in case of harware failures. Never had any problems. I got gray hairs last time. > > > What do you think, is ext4 with 2.6.29.4 ready for productive work and to > > prefer over xfs at the moment? > > As for ext4, I don't know of any current problems that would stop you > from using it for this purpose. But had you asked about xfs a month ago > I would have said the same thing. :) I can say that ext4 is the > default for F11, and I have had very few bug reports from users. I use ext4dev since it came up on my thinkpad, it runs. Good to hear your statement. What do you think about 2.6.29? Is it okay or should I wait until I can use a xen patched 2.6.31? > > All software has bugs, unfortunately, though we do our best. In the > end, testing in your environment is the only way to know for sure what > best suits your needs, I think. I know, we are in the business. But please not on my main servers ;-) Christian > > -Eric > > > Best Regards > > Christian > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
