Re: Questions regarding stack size with RHEL AS 4.0

["Eric Sandeen" <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

Dan wrote:
> I'm about to put together a low-end 3.2TiB fileserver for archival 
> purposes.  It will not be hit heavy and will mostly house backup archives 
> / etc.  The heaviest use scenario would be two NFS clients writing 
> multi-GB files and two CIFS (samba) clients reading different multi-GB
> files.  Since not *all* files are large files (maybe a couple million
> smaller 4k-100k files) I don't want to use ext3.  I do, however, want
> a single filesystem (LVM has been...annoying in the past [performance, 
> etc]).  XFS seems like the perfect option, but I'm concerned by the 
> research I've done on the 4k stack size issue.
I think we already talked on IRC, but for posterity, I mentioned using SLES9 
instead of RHEL4 for this application, because it already has tested xfs 
support, and it does not have the 4k stack issue.
-Eric