On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 at 9:53am, Johnny Hughes wrote
The 4k stack problem are a major issue with XFS. I am working with someone at SGI to get some better code for our unsupported kernel, but that cods still has 4k stack issues.
I tried, very unsuccessfully, to get a RH patched 2.6.9-22.0.1 kernel to compile with 8K stacks.
To be honest, I would not use XFS in the CentOS kernel on a mission critical server.
The code we will roll in from SGI will be similar to the latest release on SuSE, but (as I said) that has 4k stack issues too.
I am sorry to say, ext3 is just the best and most stable bet.
The kernel in CentOS plus will run XFS, ReiserFS, and JFS ... but only ext2/ext3 are really rated as production stable (or the others would be in the standard kernel).
Thanks a bunch for this update/summary. It says a lot about someone when they're willing to offer such an honest opinion of their "baby".