Martin,
Thanks for the info, I appreciate it. I wasn't really all that worried
about using XFS, I've done a bit of stability testing myself, proved
fine. But we're going to stick w/ one of the RedHat distro kernels,
patched for XFS (probably 2.4.9 at this point), because I want to stick
away from the new VM (I agree that it's probably an improvement, but
I've had 2.4.9 and 2.4.12 kernels blow up on me - locked the box
completely - and I'm not willing to bet my job on it) and because this
more or less keeps w/ the standard around here. Thanks for the
testimonial and advice!
Regards,
Derek R.
On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 05:40, Martin Spott wrote:
> Derek Richardson <derek.richardson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hello, I'm a new subscribee, was wondering if anyone knows of any
> > statistics regarding XFS filesystem use in a serious production
> > environment, or has personal experience (I take it there's quite a bit
> > here...).
>
> Sorry, I don't know of any statistics. But I might approve that i'm running
> 2.4.4-XFS on a customers 'PPS' ("Production Planning System", as we call it
> in Germany). This means the customer _really_ depends on a working machine,
> otherwise they would be in " real trouble' (TM) after short time.
>
> The machine is running since July with only one reboot (to switch power
> supplies), havingpretty used > 40 GByte filesystems on external FibreChannel
> array. They're running a OO database in filesystem, so you can imagine that
> it's I/O dependent.
>
> I believe you don't want to use such an old kernel. You'd better want to try
> a recent one (2.4.13) because of all the fixes that went in. I'm pretty
> happy with 2.4.13-XFS on the fileserver at work. The only reason I didn't
> upgrade the kernel on our customer's machine is not to touch the uptime ;-)
>
> Martin.
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