Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:58:59 +0900 | From | Clemens Schwaighofer <> | Subject | Re: Major XFS problems... |
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Jakob Oestergaard wrote:
| <frustrated_admin mode="on"> | | Does anyone actually use XFS for serious file-serving? (yes, I run it | on my desktop at home and I don't have problems there - such reports are | not really relevant).
I have our fileserver running completly on XFS (because its quota & journaled).
I have an internal 60GB HW RAID 1 and an external 4 disk SCSI 400GB software RAID 5 both running XFS. The Server is NFS, Samba and Appletalk (thought that is almost not used). NFS is not the main point (except the servers for sharing a backup disk and two office PCs who run linux there is no NFS traffic, the rest ~50 PCs connect via Samba). It's Xeon single CPU box, but I have an SMP kernel because of HT. 2GB ram.
I haven't had a single XFS connected error. It surved 5 hard reboots because of another external disk that got berserk and forced me to turn on/off the server.
A nightly backup on another HD on the same box goes well, even from 4 other servers via NFS.
| Is anyone actually maintaining/bugfixing XFS? Yes, I know the | MAINTAINERS file, but I am a little bit confused here - seeing that | trivial-to-trigger bugs that crash the system and have simple fixes, | have not been fixed in current mainline kernels.
well there is the linux-xfs ML ... :)
| If XFS is a no-go because of lack of support, is there any realistic | alternatives under Linux (taking our need for quota into account) ?
lack of support. in my opinion there work some very bright persons. Main problem is, that it comes from a system which is completly different designed than linux and I think this problem still triggers those SMP, etc bugs.
| And finally, if Linux is simply a no-go for high performance file | serving, what other suggestions might people have? NetApp?
Well. I am not yet in the TB leage and 200+ user boxes, etc. So I can't say about that. But that will come soon, and then I will see if I have to runt about that.
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