Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268148AbUIKN7K (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:59:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268155AbUIKN7K (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:59:10 -0400 Received: from dev.tequila.jp ([128.121.50.153]:27665 "EHLO dev.tequila.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268148AbUIKN7D (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:59:03 -0400 Message-ID: <414304A3.7080100@tequila.co.jp> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:58:59 +0900 From: Clemens Schwaighofer Organization: TEQUILA\Japan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040830 Thunderbird/0.7.3 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Major XFS problems... References: <20040908123524.GZ390@unthought.net> In-Reply-To: <20040908123524.GZ390@unthought.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2505 Lines: 65 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jakob Oestergaard wrote: | | | Does anyone actually use XFS for serious file-serving? (yes, I run it | on my desktop at home and I don't have problems there - such reports are | not really relevant). I have our fileserver running completly on XFS (because its quota & journaled). I have an internal 60GB HW RAID 1 and an external 4 disk SCSI 400GB software RAID 5 both running XFS. The Server is NFS, Samba and Appletalk (thought that is almost not used). NFS is not the main point (except the servers for sharing a backup disk and two office PCs who run linux there is no NFS traffic, the rest ~50 PCs connect via Samba). It's Xeon single CPU box, but I have an SMP kernel because of HT. 2GB ram. I haven't had a single XFS connected error. It surved 5 hard reboots because of another external disk that got berserk and forced me to turn on/off the server. A nightly backup on another HD on the same box goes well, even from 4 other servers via NFS. | Is anyone actually maintaining/bugfixing XFS? Yes, I know the | MAINTAINERS file, but I am a little bit confused here - seeing that | trivial-to-trigger bugs that crash the system and have simple fixes, | have not been fixed in current mainline kernels. well there is the linux-xfs ML ... :) | If XFS is a no-go because of lack of support, is there any realistic | alternatives under Linux (taking our need for quota into account) ? lack of support. in my opinion there work some very bright persons. Main problem is, that it comes from a system which is completly different designed than linux and I think this problem still triggers those SMP, etc bugs. | And finally, if Linux is simply a no-go for high performance file | serving, what other suggestions might people have? NetApp? Well. I am not yet in the TB leage and 200+ user boxes, etc. So I can't say about that. But that will come soon, and then I will see if I have to runt about that. lg, clemens -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBQwSjjBz/yQjBxz8RAg3nAKCOsh6TieGXgmutX/sbge4JvvKLMgCgghfg IWo7h1QIZhGUOv0FH51FOVE= =76lm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/