[ale] XFS on Linux - Is it ready for prime time?

[Greg Freemyer]

iirc

Xfs_check uses ram linearly to your filesystem size.

If your building 10TB filesystem, you need a large amount of ram for xfs_check.

I don't recall the ratio, but its well known.

Greg



On 4/21/10, Doug McNash <dmcnash at charter.net> wrote:
>
> 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).
>
> Does anyone out there use xfs? How about a suggestion for a stable
> replacement.
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