[OpenAFS] OpenAFS and XFS

Michael Loftis mloftis@wgops.com
Sat, 03 Jan 2004 13:02:14 -0700


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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