Zitat von Andrew Kohlsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Andrew,
> No SMP here, but no problems so far, either, even under heavy NFS load. I'd exaclty that was the point "under heavy SMP-load" it broke with several error messages working as an NFS-Server ( kernel-space ). Ok, I didn't repeat the tests know for 15 month, because I decided to use XFS, so why should do these work again ? Maybe they are now fixed. But I really dont care and as I said it was meant to be _my_ experience. But you may search the reifers archives where you can find a lot of articles about this issue. It is (was) a known problem. > eventually like to have the mail spool server as a two or three node > (geographically distant) cluster, but I may have to move to AFS for that. AFS is fast and secure - I agree, but AFAIK volumes are limited to 8 GB > I was originally looking at various DFSs but CODA and Intermezzo are both CODA also broke under heavy SMP-load in my tests. > also under the impression that XFS was not a suitable FS, but I have to > admit I did not look too hard. > Do you have some resources on XFS and what to look out for? http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ You will find a lot of docu. XFS also supports full POSIX - ACL's. There are a lot of system tools that come with xfs ( diagnostic, dumps, restore, resize ) and which make life very easy and confortable. ( And of course I am familiar with XFS, because of my IRIX background ;-)) ). Feel free to use you FS of your choice, so do I. Cheers Jens
