Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:00:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jabber.dneg.com (mail.dneg.com [193.203.82.196]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id k5EHxkDW019185 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:59:46 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by jabber.dneg.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69C1CB7338; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:59:28 +0100 (BST) Received: from jabber.dneg.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (jabber [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01342-03; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:59:23 +0100 (BST) Received: from [172.16.11.2] (prague.dneg.com [172.16.11.2]) by jabber.dneg.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F9F2B7350; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:59:15 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <44904063.7010606@dneg.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:59:15 +0100 From: Evan Fraser User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Lewis Cc: James Pearson , Eric Sandeen , xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: XFS + software raid + 4k stacks = BOOM? References: <448A98E8.9040109@moving-picture.com> <448F8C8A.4070008@sgi.com> <44902413.20305@moving-picture.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 7941 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: evan@dneg.com Precedence: bulk X-list: xfs Content-Length: 1155 Lines: 35 Hmm, well we've been using XFS on software raid's with a 2.4.29 kernel on roughly 10 NFS servers for over a year now without problems. Though we are rolling them up to FC4 as they become available. Evan. Jon Lewis wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, James Pearson wrote: > >>> There were more stack reductions after that. Which is -not- to say >>> that you -will- have problems with the above... all depends on what >>> you're doing. But Nathan did more stack work after I put that rpm out. >> >> In my case, I would want to do NFS serving with XFS file systems - >> some of the servers may use software raid as well. > > AFAIK, the 2.4 kernel series XFS CVS still doesn't do NFS service of XFS > filesystems. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jon Lewis | I route > Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are > Atlantic Net | > _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ > > > -- evan@dneg.com Linux Systems Administrator Double Negative tel: +44 (0)20 7534 4400 fax: +44 (0)20 7534 4452 77 shaftesbury avenue, w1d 5du, London