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

Warren Myers volcimaster at gmail.com
Thu Apr 22 07:59:26 EDT 2010


According to Red Hat's press release yesterday, I'd say if you had had any
concerns, they should be gone now :
http://press.redhat.com/2010/04/21/red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-beta-available-today-for-public-download/

XFS ad EXT4 coming with RHEL6 by default.

WMM

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 21:34, 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.
> --
> doug mcnash
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