Issues between Reiser and NFS were supposed to be fixed in 2.4.7 or so. I'd
try 2.4.9 with reiser and see what results you get. Except for very large
files, reiser should give better performance than XFS.
On Thursday 30 August 2001 02:25 pm, you wrote:
> Well, there's IBM's JFS, and ext3, and SGI's XFS. JFS is still a bit
> raw, and i wouldnt' trust it in production environment. ext3 seems to
> be coming along nicely, but i don't know how well it behaves with NFS.
> XFS, IMO, is the grand prize winner. I'm using it on one of my boxes,
> and haven't had a single problem. Just for giggles, i've hit the power
> button, and the box was back up & humming along happily less than 10
> seconds later. Also, XFS excels when dealing with large files. When i
> say large, i mean terabytes. ReiserFS absolutely sux at large files
> with performance numbers that make FAT32 look good. ext3 is pretty
> comparable to ext2 in terms of filesize speed perofrmance.
>
> Bottom line, go with XFS. See the SxS i wrote up for help getting it
> up.
>
> --- Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > When I was at Caldera Forum in Santa Cruz last week, somebody
> > mentioned
> > that there are potential problems with reiserfs file systems if
> > they're
> > mounted via NFS on other systems. I would like to use some kind of
> > file
> > system that doesn't require lengthy fscks on large RAID arrays
> > (hardware or
> > software), but these large file systems are accessed almost
> > exclusively via
> > NFS. If the reiserfs isn't trustworthy in this application, what are
> > the
> > alternatives?
>
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