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Re: [Xen-users] Fwd: Xen - large virtual machines

To: Alex Davies <alex@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Fwd: Xen - large virtual machines
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:09:44 +0300
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On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 11:35:13AM +0200, Alex Davies wrote:
> 
> I have a few questions, and would appreciate feedback before I try to
> achieve something dumb or impossible :)
> 
>    - I know XFS is not supported by RHEL, but does it work - and/or well?
>    I've seen several reports that suggest it performs far better (best summary
>    
> http://hepix.caspur.it/storage/hep_pdf/2007/Spring/Petkus_HEPiX_Spring06.storageeval.pdf)
>     but what is it like for reliability?

I think XFS has issues on 32 bit linux kernels, related to 4k stacks.. 
and people have been running it on 64b linux kernels with success. 

I'm not running XFS myself, so this is just what I've read from the internets:)

-- Pasi

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