Re: [Nfsen-discuss] Linux filesystem type choice?

[Peter H. <ha...@sw...>]

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Hi Ivan,

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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

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