On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> 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.
mount your nfs shared xfs partition, and run bonnie or bonnie++ on it.
this locks up a reiserfs + nfs combination. btw, do you need special
xfs-nfs patches for it to work?
> > 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.
AFAIK, even ext3 has issues with nfs, which _should not_ dapat, but i'e
read a post in the nfs mailing list that it does.
>
> --> Jijo
>
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