On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 11:36, Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote:
> Barton Bosch:
>
> >I'm going to be doing a fresh install of FC2 in the near future and
> >am considering using an XFS data partition for music and video files.
> >
>
> Why not FC3?
>
>
> >It seems that XFS isn't an install time option (according to Disk
> >Druid). How is an XFS partition added?
>
> At the fedora install cd boot-screen, write "linux xfs" instead
> of just pressing return.
>
>
> >Does anyone here have any
> >experiences or pointers to share WRT XFS or XFS and FC2?
>
> I just had a bad experience with FC3 nfs-exporting an XFS partition.
> Very unstable. However, it only happens when exporting the filesystem
> as nfs. I searched the web, and it seems like the bug is not in the
> xfs filesystem, but somewhere else in the 2.6 kernel triggered by
> the combination of xfs and nfs. (My "solution" to the problem was to use
> reiserfs)
>
> So please, don't be scared by my experience unless you are going to
> nfs-export the partition. It should be a safe and stable filesystem.
>
Interesting. We're running five 3.5TB servers with FC3 and xfs with
no problems.
Jan
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