[OpenAFS] Some questions (Linux-oriented)

[Torbjorn Pettersson]

Martin Schulz <schulz@iwrmm.math.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:

> Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com> writes:
> 
> > > 5) does AFS work on any native filesystem, esp. Reiserfs and ext3?
> > 
> > The AFS Server can use any native file system.  The AFS client for
> > Linux only works with an ext2 cache.
> 
> Are there any objections against ext3?  IIRC, it is basically an ext2
> with additional logging of filesystem metadata to speed up the
> recovery in case of an unclean shutdown. 
> 
> I ask because we are using it here on several linux clients (did not
> think about it) and not noticed any problems yet. (Maybe we just
> haven't noticed, or did not correlate them to the combination of ext3
> and AFS).
> 

 I'm guessing that it really should be ok, and also that you
should be able to use for example reiserfs for it, and I've also seen a
log message stating that some stuff were fixed (think it the
handling of the .journal -file. _However_, I had afs coredump on
me after ext3 recovering from the journal, so I guess that the
cache manager is rather sensetive about the cachefiles not being
corrupt.... 


> Yours,
> -- 
> Martin Schulz                             schulz@iwrmm.math.uni-karlsruhe.de
> Uni Karlsruhe, Institut f. wissenschaftliches Rechnen u. math. Modellbildung
> Engesser Str. 6, 76128 Karlsruhe


Regards
Tobbe
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