On 03/18/2013 06:34 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>
>>> Also, *why* are you mixing xfs and nfs services in the same
>>> envirnment? And what kind of NFS and XFS servers are you using?
>>
>>
>> Out of curiosity, why not ?
>>
>> In theory the choice of disk filesystem and network file sharing
>> protocol should be independent.
>>
>> How different is the practice ?
>
> I had some bad, bad experience with XFS and haven't used it since. It
> completely destabilized my bulk storage environment: things may have
> changed.
>
> I've deliberately and effectively kept my file systems below the 16 TB
> range and worked well with ext4. I've occasionally used larger scale
> commercial storage serves such as NetApp's for larger NFS environments
> since then.
>

I use XFS on a small RAID6 array (its 2Tb - not huge), and I mount it 
via NFS to other systems. I haven't had a kernel crash as yet.

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