[OpenAFS] OpenAFS and XFS

Brett I. Holcomb brettholcomb@charter.net
Sat, 03 Jan 2004 22:47:55 -0500


Thanks for the info.  It looks like I can setup a cache file system on a 
file and mount it with the loop device.


Michael Loftis wrote:
> XFS on linux is an entirely different beast with hordes of it's own bugs 
> and problems.  They SGI/IRIX XFS and Linux XFS may read and write to the 
> same data structures but the XFS implementation is wicked different.
> 
> --On Friday, January 02, 2004 13:14 -0500 chas williams 
> <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
> 
>> on the sgi, using xfs for a vice cache is just fine.  however, you
>> cannot run fsr (filesystem reorganizer) while running afsd.  since
>> xfs on linux is essentially the same i dont see why xfs as a cache
>> on linux wouldn't be just as safe.  of course, i havent actually tried
>> this.
> 
> 
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> labeled `occupant.'"
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