2001-02-01 22:35:16

by Bernd Eckenfels

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Subject: Re: XFS file system Pre-Release

In article <[email protected]> you wrote:
>> What support does XFS provide for clustering?
>> Pavel

> This statement is a little misleading, the clustering software is other
> stuff from SGI, they just have xfs filesystems on the machines.

One reason for this is, that in a shared nothing cluster on fail over you may
have to have a filesystem check. and that is simly taking too long if you do
not have a log filesystem. Thats why reiser, jfs, xfs or ext3 makes sense here.

Greetings
Bernd