opinion on XFS (Re:)

Mikhail Kuzminsky kus at free.net
Tue May 7 11:23:39 PDT 2002


According to Yudong Tian
> From beowulf-admin at beowulf.org Tue May  7 19:43:09 2002
> From: "Yudong Tian" <yudong at hsb.gsfc.nasa.gov>
> To: "Beowulf \(E-mail\)" <beowulf at beowulf.org>
> Subject: opinion on XFS
> Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 11:28:23 -0400
> 
> 
>  Hello,
>     Has anyone tested the water of using SGI's XFS on a Linux cluster Can
> you kindly share any experience and insights?
   Unfortunately we don't use xfs on Linux nodes because it's
not standard kernel feature, but we has big experience w/xfs under
some generations of SGI Irix on different hardware from workstations
to SMP/ccNUMA servers, and xfs looks as very reliable and appropriate
for intensive I/O.

Mikhail Kuzminsky
Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry
Moscow



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