Hi All

My Questions
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1) Does anyone know how the XFS filesystem has changed between SL3 and SL4?
2) Are there any options, switches, compiler changes to have XFS behave 
in SL4 like it did in SL3?

Background
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For the last 2 years, I have been running a number of NFS servers on 
SL3.0.5/i386, with the data served from an XFS filesystem, and they have 
been running smoothly.  I recently received a new set of AMD boxes on 
which I have been installing SL4.4 (I have tried both i386 and x86_64).  
What I am finding, is that the XFS filesystem on SL4.4 (for both i386 
and x86_64) behaves differently than it did in SL 3.0.5. 

My Test
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I am performing a gmake build from a build server, with the source files 
coming over NFS from the NFS servers.  If the NFS server uses SL3.0.5 
with XFS, the build succeeds.  If the NFS server uses SL4.4 with XFS, my 
build fails, but if I change that same partition on the NFS server to be 
ext3 instead of XFS, than the build succeeds (just like it did under 3.0.5).

Tested Scenarios
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NFS box running SL3.0.5 with XFS -> build succeeds
NFS box running SL4.4/i386 with XFS -> build fails
NFS box running SL4.4/x86_64 with XFS -> build fails
NFS box running SL4.4/x86_64 with ext3 -> build succeeds


So, what changed between SL3 and SL4, and can I change it back, or do I 
need to move to ext3?

thanks,

Paul Jochum
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