Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 05 Oct 2001 14:41:37 +0400 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: [POT] Which journalised filesystem ? (fwd) |
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"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 08:01:03PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > > > Do you had NFS Problems or do you had filesystem problems? > > > > Because NFS interaction with Journaled Filesystems is/was an issue with > > those recent kernels, as far as i understand. > > Should be fine with ext3 and XFS. It's not a journaling problem as > much as NFS assuming a particular property of the filesystem. > > Resierfs had a particular difficulty with NFS, mainly because the NFS > spec assumes that every file can be looked up by a 64-bit cookie which > doesn't change over reboots, and that's a hard invariant to deal with > when you've only got 32-bit inode numbers in the kernel and when your > filesystem is tree-structured so that the file metadata on disk can > move about. The VFS has been extended a bit in more recent kernels to > allow Reiserfs to give NFS the hints it needs to get the file handles > right. > > Cheers, > Stephen > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ NFS and Reiserfs interaction is stable from all reports.
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