Matthew Stringer wrote: > Hi, > > I've a server with 24 500GB SATA 2 hard drives with RAID5 running 10.2. > > It also has a pair of small disks for the OS with ext3 FS and the large 11TB > LV was using ReiserFS. > > The box was OK, but I found that when it was under heavy load the LV would > lock up, where I was unable to read or write to it, the only way to get it > back was a hard reset as the partition refused to unmount. > > My understanding is that the limit for ReiserFS is 17.6TB's so I'm well > within > the limit. > > I've switched the filesystem to XFS which has been fine although I generally > prefer the performance of ReiserFS. > > I don't think this is a bug with SUSE as I tried Fedora on the box with > exactly the same results. > > Using XFS isn't causing a problem, but I thought I post this to see what > folks > have to say on this subject. > > Cheers > > Matthew > I understand you have to be careful with xfs. When there are large number of files being used, xfs caches a lot of the data. I read somewhere, that xfs under heavy load will lock up sometimes and use all your memory up.
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