From: Greg Boehnlein <damin@nacs.net>
Subject: Re: Journaling FileSystems w/ NFS
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 17:58:26 -0400 (EDT)
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On 21 Sep 2002, Philippe Troin wrote:

> Greg Boehnlein <damin@nacs.net> writes:
>
> > Let me bring you up to speed on what we are doing, and provide an accurate
> > idea of what our needs and requirements are. Instead of backing our data
> > up directly to tape, we instead dump it to a large 320 Gig, RAID-5
> > partition on a Linux box. That, in turn, is backed up to tape on a regular
> > basis and taken offsite. Recent growth of data on some of our "Cobalt Raq"
> > servers has forced us to upgrade to a filesystem that can handle file
> > sizes of greater than 2 gigs. (Why Cobalt doesn't split their backup
> > archives into multiple pieces is beyond me). On occasion, this partition
> > needs to be accessible via NFS for other Servers and workstations.
> > Obviously with a file system of that size, a journaling system would be
> > advantageous.
> >
> > So, we need three main things:
> > 1. Journaling File System
> > 2. Large file support
> > 3. NFS Compatibility
> >
> > I had suggested XFS to my Operations Manager, but he decided to try using
> > JFS, as it was an included option in RedHat 7.3. Installation went
> > beautifully, and everything was peachy, until we tried to export that
> > file-system via NFS. Doing so caused the load average on the box to
> > skyrocket.. Apparently, NFS and JFS don't get along very well together.
> >
> > Our solution? Use XFS. ;) However, there do appear to be issues between
> > JFS and NFS... Not sure where, or what, but I thought I'd mention it.
>
> I'd be curious to know why you did not choose the "easy" solution:
> ext3. It is journalled, it has LFS support, and works flawlessly with
> NFS.

Because I was under the impression that EXT3 does not support file sizes
greater than 2 gigabytes. If I am wrong, I would prefer to use ext3... But
I can't find anything that tells me what the filesize limitation is for
ext3.

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