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I've been using ext4 on both the "big/slow" SATA array and the
"small/fast" SAS array in the file server I run at work for the better
part of a year now. I performed unspeakable tortures on it before I
put the system into production but even the automated disk-to-disk
backup that takes place every night (especially the first-of-the-month
one that makes a >400GiB squashfs image) as well as the occasional
ClamAV scans and searches definitely load things up. To date the only
problem that I have had with the server at all was probably
attributable to either Samba or a stray bit flip affecting Samba, not
ext4, and it was cured with a Samba restart. In fact, I had occasion
to bring the eight-drive RAID1+0 SATA array down recently after 208
days of continuous uptime and gave it a fscking before mounting it, and
it was fine. That being said, I'm not seeing a downside to ext4, at
least not yet. Granted, perhaps there are applications where XFS, JFS,
etc. would work so much better that it would be worth occasional
strangenesses, but a big file server for mostly WinTel desktop/laptop
clients isn't one of them. <br>
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On 4/22/10 7:59 AM, Warren Myers wrote:
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cite="mid:j2wcd08a04c1004220459v93635254ic293fbd8fbaac79f@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">According to Red Hat's press release yesterday, I'd say if
you had had any concerns, they should be gone now : <a
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XFS ad EXT4 coming with RHEL6 by default.<br>
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WMM<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 21:34, Doug McNash <span
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I'm consulting at a company that wants to turn their Linux based NAS in
to a reliable product. They initially chose XFS because they were
under the impression that it was high performance but what they got was
something of questionable reliability. I have identified and patched
several serious bugs (2.6.29) and I have a feeling there are more
unidentified ones out there. Furthermore, xfs_check craps out of memory
every time so we have to do an xfs_repair at boot and it takes forever.
But today we got into a situation where xfs_repair can't repair the
disk (a raid5 array btw).<br>
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Does anyone out there use xfs? How about a suggestion for a stable
replacement.<br>
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doug mcnash<br>
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