On Monday 28 Sep 2009, Raja Subramanian wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have inherited the system administration of a file server with a > > 6TB XFS filesystem. What was the size of the XFS file system with > > which you experienced the above problem? > > I had 150-300GB each on a few Irix 6.x boxes and ran into issues. I > also tested xfs on 2.4.x linux kernels with ~1TB file systems and had > the same problem -- I ran reiserfs in the end. This was circa > 2000-2001 and I have not used xfs since.
Thanks for sharing your experience. > > The client premise experiences frequent power outages. > > I don't think the xfs situation has improved, and would not recommend > using it with unreliable power or hardware. Unless you are exceeding > the limits of a tuned ext3/4, it's best not to move away from ext3/4. The previous consultant company had done the install and config.; they chose XFS. > Btw, are you having all 6TB on a single file system? Any file system > corruption can hose the entire volume and take a lot of data with it. Yup, the entire 6TB (external array connected with FC to the file server) is XFS. Another 3Ware array of 4TB was on XFS which I have reformatted to ext3. On the 6TB device, the client has a lot of data that cannot be moved elsewhere and hence I am stuck with XFS until some additional storage is arranged for. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
