Re: [Nfsen-discuss] Linux filesystem type choice?
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From: Peter H. <ha...@sw...> - 2006-07-18 13:29:18
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ivan, - -------- Original Message -------- From: "Ivan A. Beveridge" <iv...@li...> To: nfsen-discuss ML <nfs...@li...> Subject: [Nfsen-discuss] Linux filesystem type choice? Date: Tue Jul 18 2006 14:38:21 GMT+0200 (CEST) > Hi all, > > I was using xfs for the PROFILEDATA partition for nfsen for a while. > > Well - that was until last night, when a kernel upgrade appeared to wipe > away the filesystem. I recovered the LVM (PV/VG/LV) but xfs refused to > see anything (even booting back to the old kernel). > > Occasionally I've had similar issues on other Linux systems, but fixing > the LVM always brought things back (not tried it with an xfs filesystem > before). > > This has seriously dented my trust in xfs, however a few of the nice > things about xfs were speed of file-delete/mount/unmount/create. Trying > to mount a newly-formatted 1.2TB filesystem under xfs takes 4s, whereas > it takes 45s under reiserfs (and longer under ext3 from what I remember). > > What do other people with large filesystems use? If xfs (especially if > using LVM) have you seen anything like this? > I don't know if this is really a XFS issue - maybe LVM causes some problems, so XFS can handle no longer the partition. I'm using XFS for years now - since we started collecting netflow, without a single issue with XFS. However, we don't use XFS in combination with LVM. - Peter > Cheers > > > Ivan - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nfsen-discuss mailing list Nfs...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfsen-discuss - -- _______ SWITCH - The Swiss Education and Research Network ______ Peter Haag, Security Engineer, Member of SWITCH CERT PGP fingerprint: D9 31 D5 83 03 95 68 BA FB 84 CA 94 AB FC 5D D7 SWITCH, Limmatquai 138, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland E-mail: pet...@sw... Web: http://www.switch.ch/security -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRLziH/5AbZRALNr/AQJ27AP+JgThLqM3KinVdPC71riR4aFlZ9QsUqzY UMQwfX0l/BbHUCmnzPnj+lSH1Eg3aEC8SGnJ4DLdQ1zEstjX4yTdSkqvFw67TJDZ 7T/J9pOBjY/pquWvPG1Bjgg1gCpAT444U1z3aBzOBcqHGCUsDEa5cvBOzQ7lceM8 boWfn1B/rwo= =0A00 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |