On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 at 20:22, Ian C. Sison wrote:
> > mount your nfs shared xfs partition, and run bonnie or bonnie++ on it.
>
> I'll probably play around with my system this weekend if I don't have an
> exam next week. My PostgreSQL partition is pretty empty, so I'll use that
> for the test files. I'll also do a test transferring a file > 4GB (single
> file) and see how life goes. :)
bonnie is a much harder torture test on file systems, and incorporates
several techniques to stress the underlying fs/network fs. It basically
does tests on both large and small files, as well as creating files, then
increasing their size, etc...and benchmarking them as well.
>
> > this locks up a reiserfs + nfs combination.
>
> Even 2.4.9 + pending patches?
2.4.6mdk which reportedly did not include some patches from the reiser
team that the nfs team needed. I'm just getting up to speed with the
latest mdk kernel security upgrade at 2.4.7 (which unforunately still has
the iptables-restore segfault), and will post some comments...
>
> > btw, do you need special xfs-nfs patches for it to work?
>
> No. XFS uses a pretty traditional inode implementation that doesn't break
> most VFS stuff. A few minor bugs snuck into release 1.0, but release 1.0.1
> is supposed to handle NFS properly. I'm using 2.4.9 (kernel) which has
> even more little fixes post-1.0.1, which uses 2.4.5.
Hmm. nice input. The 2.4.7 kernel of mandrake has ext3,jfs,reiser all
built in. i may be doing some tests on that as well, just to see how
stable they are over NFS. I wonder why they chose to not do the legwork
to include xfs, grrrrrr!
>
> > 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.
>
> Egad. I wonder, though, if this is because NFS on Linux is supposed to be
> br0ken. :(
Supposedly it's gone better... But then again, the proof of the pudding is
in the eating. So far it's quite sour...
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