[OpenAFS] Filesystem possibilities for /vicepa

[Nathan Neulinger]

er. fsck doesn't need any special knowledge...


On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 07:17, Nathan Neulinger wrote:
> On any platform using the namei interface for the file/vol servers, the
> data is normal files, and the file server doesn't need any special
> knowledge of the contents/structure.  (i.e. linux)
> 
> ext2/ext3/reiserfs all work fine for vice partitions
> ext2/ext3 work fine for cache partitions
> 
> -- Nathan
> 
> On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 04:37, Adrian Knoth wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:20:36AM +0000, Ryan Underwood wrote:
> >  
> > > Hello,
> > 
> > Hi!
> >  
> > > Does anyone have any experience/recommendations as to which ones get along
> > > with AFS?  I can choose between ext3, JFS, XFS, and ReiserFS on Linux.  
> > 
> > We are running /vicepa under reiserfs. ext3 is also possible, but we chose
> > reiserfs because it is online-resizeable. So to say, we can increase
> > the AFS-space without shutting down the server.
> > 
> > > AFS, but I am concerned that the fsck utilities for these filesystems might
> > > not understand the AFS structure, and end up munging it.
> > 
> > This might be possible. If you'll really get a reiserfs-crash then you can
> > be sure that there is trailing garbage at the end of your files.
> > 
> > The salvager works well for us. We don't fsck the /vicepa on bootup.
> > 
> > 
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> > 
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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
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