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Re: XFS use in production environment

To: derek.richardson@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: XFS use in production environment
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 08:31:56 -0600
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Hi Derek - 

Please don't send HTML mail to the list, our overzealous filters bounce
it. :(   But welcome to the list, and hopefully someone can answer your
questions below...

-Eric

Derek Richardson <derek.richardson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
 
> All,
> 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...).  By serious production, I mean a cluster environment (12+
> racks of 32+1 nodes, external fibre disk array, large - 10+ GB - file
> r/w's, etc.) that needs to maintain 99% or better uptime.  I'm planning
> on using either the 2.4.3-12 kernel (standard RedHat, XFS patched in by
> SGI - retrieved from the 1.0.1 release section of oss.sgi.com) or
> 2.4.9-7 (same) from the testing series (depending on stability and if it
> offers any features we need).  Also, I need to check w/ my employer, but
> I might have a machine or two that I would be willing to do
> stability/benchmark testing on.  I'll get back to yall on this.  But any
> suggestions/advice/etc. about this issue would be very much
> appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
> Regards,
> Derek R.
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Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@xxxxxxx   SGI, Inc.


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