On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Chris Allen wrote: > Strange that whatever the filesystem you get equal numbers of people > saying that > they have never lost a single byte to those who have had horrible > corruption and > would never touch it again. We stopped using XFS about a year ago because we > were getting kernel stack space panics under heavy load over NFS. It > looks like > the time has come to give it another try.
I had a bad experience with XFS a year or so ago, and after getting told to RTFM from the XFS users list, after I'd already RTFMd, I gave up on it. (and them) However, I've just decided to give it a go again (for the single reason that it's faster at deleting large swathes of files than ext3, which this server might have to do from time to time), and so-far so good. Looking back, what I think I really was having problems with at the time was 2 issues; one was that I was using LVM too, and it really wasn't production ready, and the other was that the default kernel stack size was 4KB at the time - which was what was causing me problems under heavy NFS load... I'm trying it now on a 3.5TB RAID-6 server now with a relatively light NFS (and Samba) load, but will be rolling it out on an identical server soon which is expected to have a relatively high load, so heres hoping... Gordon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
