Hi Tony,

> I was under the impression that most issues with XFS and stacks came 
> up when stacking it up with MD and LVM.  There is a patch to 

Yes that's right, thanks for jogging my memory.

> serialize call chains such as XFS->LVM->MD, but I don't know if 
> Redhat as added it to their distributed kernel.
> 
> SGI does have a test source rpm in ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/testing/RHEL4/
> for 2.6.9-22.EL.  This does also build properly against 2.6.9-
> 22.0.1.EL.  It looks like it put together sometime in Nov2005 so 
> should be pretty representitive of the current state of XFS development.

In my case, I was building production clusters so couldn't rely on patches
here and there but needed something supported by the vendor (ext3).

Regards,

Michael.

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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
> Michael Mansour
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 12:56 PM
> To: Bonnie Alcorn; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: XFS and SL4.2
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > We are currently using SL3.05 with XFS and are considering going to 
> > SL 
> > 4.2  We use XFS for our data areas.  Does anyone have any experience 
> > using XFS with 4.2?  Are there any known problems?  I would be happy 
> > to hear about any experiences, good or bad.
> 
> I used XFS on 4.2 for a couple of months in test, but found an issue 
> with the 4k and 8k buffers? (I think that's what they were called) 
> when using them. My severs would hard crash when putting any 
> legitimate load on them.
> 
> >From memory (you can check the list archives for my emails related to this),
> it turned out that RH compiled only 4k into the kernel, and XFS 
> needed 8k.
> 
> I begrungingly removed XFS from the data volume and reformatted to ext3.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael.
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