[CentOS] Calling All FS Fanatics

Peter Kjellström cap at nsc.liu.se
Fri Oct 6 07:14:24 UTC 2006


On Friday 06 October 2006 05:12, Feizhou wrote:
> Kirk Bocek wrote:
> > Peter Kjellström wrote:
> >> I use XFS on Centos-4 here with 9500-S and 9550-SX. The load is quite
> >> heavy (~30 climate modelling people) and the volume not tiny (~40 TiB).
> >> This system works fine and I have no problems sleeping at night. But
> >> then again, if you want data security you'll have to run backups anyway.
> >> Any filesystem can die.
> >
> > Oh, yea, backups! :)
> >
> > Heck, 30 users and 40 tibibytes of data is a pretty good stress test.
> > How long have you been running XFS in this setup?
>
> Don't forget his comment about the size of the stack. Jeff Mahoney
> (Linux fs coder) had something to say about XFS' current state of
> affairs in the Linux kernel and he had something to say about XFS + 4k
> stacks.

Don't even try it is my feeling (xfs on 4k stacks).

/Peter
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