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Re: 2.4.18 XFS 1.1 : Gave up on XFS - too many Oops

To: Austin Gonyou <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 2.4.18 XFS 1.1 : Gave up on XFS - too many Oops
From: Simon Matter <simon.matter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 14:08:17 +0200
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Austin Gonyou schrieb:
> 
> Just as a point of note. We run twelve 2550's in production taking ~75
> to 100million hits/day. We run *nothing* but XFS. Also, just recently I
> brought up a 6650, P4 box, and run only XFS there as well. One thing I
> always do though, and is a good idea, is to use the -aa tree. It has XFS
> support, no code changes, just incorporation, as well as lots of other
> goodies for good systems like this.
> 
> Of note at this time on the 6650, I'm running 2.4.19-rc2-aa1.
> In production it's 2.4.10 + xfs patches. With all honesty, it has been
> "uberstable" besides a couple of issues we've had, but that was our own
> stupidity, and nothing to do with XFS or hardware. (qlogic stuff)

Another source for good kernels are the one RedHat provides. They
include lots of patches which you may need while still being stable. The
only problem I found was that they refuse to include XFS till now.
I'm running many servers with the XFS enabled RH 2.4.9-XX kernels
without any problems and with months of uptime, although they are not so
heavy loadedservers. I was able to crash any 2.4.5-XFS kernel within
minutes with some simple scripts but that's gone and I'm very happy with
it.

Simon

> 
> > Last XFS config:
> >
> > Dell 2550 Dual P-III (Coppermine) 933 MHz
> > 1 GB Ram
> > 1 9GB internal disk, aic7xxx driver (kernel)
> > RedHat 7.2
> > kernel 2.4.18 + XFS 1.1 (and xfs tools)
> > nfsutils-0.3.3
> > Qlogic 2200 SAN Adaptor firmware 2.02.01 running Qlogic driver 6.0b20
> > Intel PRO/1000 Gig-Fiber running Intel e1000 driver 4.0.7
> > Zzyzx RocketStor 2000 Raid Head
> > Qlogic SAN box (Isolated Hard segment between file-server and Zzyzx)
> 
> Are you running this server specifically for NFS purposes? If so, you
> might want to try the latest CVS, as well as looking at using the -aa
> tree. Personally, I love XFS for what it does. It's been the most
> resiliant, and stable FS we've run, not in the kernel tree.
> 
> --
> Austin Gonyou <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Coremetrics, Inc.
> 
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