----- Original Message ----- | Eliezer Croitoru eliezer@ngtech.co.il writes: | | > I had similar issue: A nfs server with XFS as the FS for backup of | > a | > very large system. I have a 2TB raid-1 volume and I started rsync | > the | > backup and then somewhere I got this issue. There were lots of | > files | > there and the system has 8GB of ram and CentOS 6.5 64bit. I didn't | > bother to look at the issue due to the fact that ReiserFS was just | > OK | > with it without any issues. | > | > I never new about the inode64 option, is it only on the mount | > options | > or also on the mkfs.xfs command? | > | > Also in a case I want to test it again what would be a | > recommendation | > to not crash the system when there is lot's of memory in use? | | | My systems have 17G of RAM and 1T xfs partitions. I was under the | impression that inode64 option only applies to FS larger than 1T in | size?
Your impression is correct. The OPs filesystem is less than 1TB so inode64 is not the problem and it is likely a kernel bug.