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.