Jan Depner:
>> 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.
Really? I could hardly boot with that combination. Its a 1.25TB server
using an Intel srcs16 controller. Tried both kernel 2.6.9-1.667smp
and 2.6.9-1.667. Which kernel and controller are you using?
(The machine is still not set into production, and I would like to have
it running xfs if possible.)
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