[CentOS] XFS and CentOS 4.3

On Tuesday 15 August 2006 06:13, Mark Strong wrote:
> Hi All, after looking around for info on XFS(the filesystem) and its use
> on CentOS and/or RHEL 4.  There seems to be a lot of noise about 4K
> Stacks (especially on linux-xfs at oss.sgi.com).
>
> ...
>
> >You don't want to use the XFS in the centosplus kernel. It has major
> >known issues with 4K stacks (leading to overflows). Use the
> >kernel-module-xfs (or somesuch) RPM instead, and you should have better
> >luck.

I don't have a full answer for you, what happen probably depends alot on both 
hardware and software configuration and load. But, I'll second the above 
statement, don't use the xfs module as shipped with the centosplus kernel 
(afaict it's still vanilla from 2.6.9 and it did break for me when I tested) 
but go with the kernel-module-xfs package.

We've been running ~5 servers and ~10T on centos with the stand-alone module 
for quite some time and seen no problems (nfs serving on x86_64 using 3ware 
cards for storage) YMMW... 

/Peter
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