Am Dienstag, den 22.05.2007, 22:23 -0400 schrieb Greg Folkert: > On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 23:39 +0000, George N. White III wrote: > > On Tue, 22 May 2007, Greg Folkert wrote: > > >>> can anybody explain the following to me? It happens in full production > > >>> use. Should i change back to ext3 > > > > At one time, XFS on i386 hardware was known to be fragile, especially when > > using IDE disks. If you wanted to use XFS, you needed to build a kernel > > with ample stack space due to nesting of calls with long argument lists > > when handling errors under heavy I/O. > > > > What hardware and kernel are you using for XFS and what sort of I/O loads > > do you have?
2 Segate Disks ST3400620A (IDE) with Software RAID1 and LVM on it. Standard Debian SMP Kernel Linux storage01 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Wed Apr 18 09:55:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux 2 * Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (dual core) on Intel Board I/O loads produced by moving a lot of files via samba through a 100Mbit/s link > Even back on 2.4.12 (or was it 2.4.4 or something like that... with the > VM problems also kicking in issues) when this was true, I still had zero > problems ON i386 AND IDE drives... just not Western Digital IDE drives > as XFS would trigger the firmware on the drives to have difficulties. Thanks Andreas Grabner -- vianova mediendesign GmbH Andreas Grabner Augasse 24 A-7400 Oberwart Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +43.3352.32860 Mobil: +43 664 4337283 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
