Re: [expert] Why Journalled FS do I have to use??!!! I'm disturbed!!!

2002-01-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Jan 29, 2002 at 01:14:04PM -0800, Bryan B Whitehead wrote: I run XFS on about 20-30+ linux machines. Never have any problems. Our main reason for using XFS was RFS seems to always have some type of problem. I got sick of it... Also, we cannot backup RFS partitions as there is NO

Re: [expert] Why Journalled FS do I have to use??!!! I'm disturbed!!!

2002-01-28 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi Folks, Good question. We have a cluster here working in XFS (scsi HD). No problem at all and it was choosen due to documentation and SGI name. But it's using Red Hat. Does MDK work fine with XFS? Is the procedure installation of XFS in MDK equal to the one in Red Hat? Thanks for

Re: [expert] Why Journalled FS do I have to use??!!! I'm disturbed!!!

2002-01-28 Thread John Haywood
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 01:56, you wrote: Hi Folks, Good question.  We have a cluster here working in XFS (scsi HD). No problem at all and it was choosen due to documentation and SGI name. But it's using Red Hat.  Does MDK work fine with XFS?  Is the procedure installation of XFS

Re: [expert] Why Journalled FS do I have to use??!!!I'm disturbed!!!

2002-01-28 Thread Ben De Luca
resierfs should be NFS happy since 2.4.7 (ish). Im a little concerned with xfs though I use it a lot on SGI's, it just doenst seem to be getting the support of the other file systems. Ive found ext3 to be exceedingly slow on large volumes :( I like resierfs and havnt seen any problems yet! with

[expert] Why Journalled FS do I have to use??!!! I'm disturbed!!!

2002-01-27 Thread ngn
Hi folks, I'm doubting to choose two different journalled FS ( XFS or RFS ) My opinion is that XFS has the best performance in all the fields. Furthermore it has additional features due to its porting of IRIX, but I also read that for other people RFS is the best one. Also I read that RFS