On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Joe Landman wrote:
I haven't seen or heard anyone claim xfs 'routinely locks up their system'. I won't comment on your friends "sharpness". I will point out that several very large data stores/large cluster sites use xfs. By definition, no large data store can be built with ext3 (16 TB limit with patches, 8 TB in practice), so if your sharp friend is advising you to do this ...
He currently works for a phone company, so the amount of data is quite large, but the usage pattern is probably quite different. As far as skill level, I would rate him much higher than any of the folks I work with as far as being a sysadmin.
So, any good info on kernel configuration when I go to build a new rpm? There are a huge number of options and you have obviously gone through them much more recently than I have.
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