On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 at 08:36, Ian C. Sison wrote:
> Do you have any news from the XFS front about getting nfs stable over
> XFS or any other *FS? So far the only 'true' support nfs has is with
> ext2 and recently reiserfs.
XFS is supposed to handle NFS gracefully, even moreso than ReiserFS (which
is a purely personal remark based on monitoring both lists for NFS
issues). The official statement about this can be found in
<http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#xfsworknfs>.
Lately I've read a few messages about a seeming issue with transferring
single files >2GB over NFS, but I have to catch up on the XFS mailing list
to read on more. This is pretty recent, and discussions to track down the
problem are still being done (which is why there is nothing in the FAQ
about it yet). Those interested may beat me to it by checking the archives
at <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/>.
I am currently using NFS to export my XFS partitions, but haven't stress
tested them, yet. If someone has a decent stress testing tool to
recommend, fire away.
> NFS is very important when dealing with file servers, really IMHO, the
> implementation of kernel-nfs in linux very problematic...
I agree. But assuming you are hell bent on using Linux (and not *BSD or
some other UNIX, or God forbid, Windows), then it looks like XFS is so far
the most stable journalling filesystem that works with NFS, next to ext3,
of course, which isn't supposed to go wrong where ext2 doesn't go wrong.
--> Jijo
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