[mythtv-users] Re: XFS Recommendations?
David George
david at thegeorges.us
Wed Sep 29 14:07:49 EDT 2004
On 9/29/2004 1:27 PM, Nate wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:22:18PM -0700, Mike Wood wrote:
>>
>>> Hey guys/gals, I'm setting up a new drive to be used as my myth
>>> storage
>>> device. I'm thinking about using XFS as the file system. I don't want
>>> to start a debate over whether that's a good choice. That's been done.
>>> What I'm wondering is, from those that are using XFS successfully for
>>> Myth, do you recommend any options/settings, either when the filesystem
>>> is created, or mounting options. Obviously, I'm looking for
>>> performance
>>> improvements, and stability improvements, if any.
>>
>> Try to avoid kernels with 4KSTACKS.
>
> Hmm, I'm using xfs w/ 4k stacks on gentoo just fine.
> What makes you think it won't work?
I'm not the person above that said to "try to avoid", but I do have some
info regarding this.
It isn't that they won't work, just you *may* have issues with 4k
stacks. Here is one of the reasons: http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/7/20/62
. Basically there is a potential for a kernel oops if the XFS
filesystem gets *near* full and tries to free some reserved space.
There was another reason posted on the lkml, but I don't recall it nor
have a link handy (sorry).
That being said. XFS has been working great for me and I have no
intention of changing in the near term. Of course I still use 8K stacks
though (on 2.6.9-rc2).
--
David
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