[OpenAFS] OpenAFS and XFS

[brettholcomb@charter.net]

Sorry, I'm using webmail today and didn't notice the list defaulted to replying to you.

At this time I don't have any partitions available and don't want to have to create them.  

How big a hit does no cache give you?



> 
> From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
> Date: 2004/01/02 Fri PM 12:29:43 EST
> To: <brettholcomb@charter.net>
> CC: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS and XFS
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> <brettholcomb@charter.net> writes:
> 
> > Okay, that lets OpenAFS out for me then.
> 
> I don't see what's so hard about creating an ext2/3 partition for your
> afs cache.  You should have a dedicated cache partition anyways.
> Worst case you could use the -memcache option to afsd and skip the
> persistent disk cache.
> 
> > Why the requirement for ext2/3 for cache?  Why not use whatever file
> > system is there?
> 
> Because it needs direct access to the inodes via iget(); this works
> for ext2/3, it does not work for reiserfs (or xfs, I believe) because
> they (well, reiser for sure) breaks the user-space inode abstraction.
> 
> > Thank you.
> 
> -derek
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