centos and xfs filesystem shutdowns

[eerov at welho.com]

Quoting Matthew Kent <mkent at magoazul.com>:

> Desperately seeking advice :)
>
> The setup:
>
> * CentOS 5.2
> * kmod-xfs-0.4-2 from centosplus repo
> * nfs exporting -> xfs filesystem -> lvm volume -> iscsi target
> * each filesystem is about 750GB and we mount 5 on each server.
> * each filesystem contains 3-20 million small files.
> * mount options are as follows
>   _netdev,noatime,uqnoenforce,gqnoenforce,ihashsize=262139,rw

I also encountered lot of crashes and hangups with Centos 5.2 and XFS  
filesystem.

Solution that worked for me was recompiling latest vanilla kernel and  
installed it into Centos 5.2 system. Maybe some third party provides  
latest vanilla kernel for Centos 5.2 in rpm format?

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Eero