Clustered version of XFS

[Eric Sandeen]

Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi wrote:
> we are using XFS high speed transaction processing system.
> 
> we are very happy with XFS performance compared to ZFS, EXT3, JFS etc.
> 
> i have two questions regarding XFS ...
> 
> 1. Is there any cluster version of XFS. (e.g. like GFS, Luste, GPFS)

SGI sells a product called CXFS (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=clustered+xfs) ;)

> 2. I am currently using my root partition as XFS. but i need to modify
> XFS source code and reload module without rebooting machine.
>     Is there anyway to play with XFS source/module while using XFS
> module for mounted file system ....?

In general no, but you might look into KSplice.

-Eric

> 
> cheers
> __
> tharindu