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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