Edward Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just received a 160 gb hard drive that I plan to partition as one > big partition and mount as /home/public on the family file server > (woody). Most of the files in this directory are mp3, mpg, avi, etc. > > I've constructed a 2.4.16 kernel with the required ide patch and > patched it to support xfs. I've tested everything and it works, but I > haven't put it into use yet. > > Anyone have any thoughts on which file system to use? ext3 or xfs?
I was using XFS and reiserfs on my nfs fileserver. Reiserfs is really bad for nfs, but I still had one lightly-used reiserfs partition that I was sharing via nfs (server running 2.4.16-xfs). I was running into a problem with occasional kernel oopses and server lockups when my wife's laptop unsuspended; the server would even lockup on reboot as soon as knfsd was restarted unless I took the laptop off the network. The linux-kernel mailing list intimated that it could be a bug with xfs. Others pointed out that reiserfs as bad for nfs. In the end, I migrated both the reiserfs and xfs filesystems to ext3, and haven't seen any oops since. I can't say that xfs caused the problem for sure, and I really do like xfs, but at this time, I only use ext3. This is pure anecdotal evidence, so you can take it for whatever you think it's worth. Regards, -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Yow! ..I must be a UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | VETERINARIAN.. Seattle, WA, USA | http://www.rudedog.org/ |
