Hi Brian
> When I first installed my linux box using XFS I installed vmware
> and found the vmware message about file locking. I fixed that and
> attempted to install my NT4 in a guest vmware. It locked when it came to
> formatting the filesystem....don't know why.
>
> At that point, I gave up and put an ext2 filesystem on there and
> installed. Since I figured that XFS has become much more stable, I
> figured I'd give XFS another try. I backed up the ext2, did mkfs.xfs and
> restored. (Didn't have to worry about the NTFS format since I already
> have my NT guest system running). So I run vmware and it hangs at the
> prom screen right after it detects the disks...I aborted and restarted and
> this time it works!? Don't know why.
>
> My main question is: Is XFS ok to use for this purpose
> (performance-wise)? Are there any mount options I ought to use that would
> help with the performance of *very* large files (like the image file that
> vmware uses)?
Here on my computer it works perfectly: I have a kernel 2.4.5-xfs
(latest CVS tree) running whith vmware 2.0.3-799 with its virtual disk
on a xfs partition. So I can not see a general problem using vmware.
BTW: XFS works great here on a couple of servers since months. We
currently have more than 4.000.000 files and 400GB on our harddisks
which are all production systems for our working group. We are really
happy having found such a stable and reliable filesystem (much better
than reiserfs).
Deti
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