[OpenAFS] underlying FS type?

Rudolph T Maceyko rtm@cert.org
Thu, 16 May 2002 11:34:31 -0400


All,

--On Thursday, May 16, 2002 08:31:08 -0700 Alf Wachsmann 
<alfw@SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

> I am more than surprised to read this advice for the AFS client cache.
> If you look at one of the recent threads on the openafs-devel
> mailinglist I see a very clear advice for using ext2 ONLY.
>
> Could someone please give a _definitive_ answer to this question for
> OpenAFS-1.2.3 and 1.2.4.

This won't be _definitive_, but I was a bit surprised to see that ext3 
was supposed to be a problem.  We've been using it for quite some time 
now for cache partitions and haven't seen a single cache-related AFS 
problem.

Rudy