[OpenAFS] File systems on Linux, again.

John Lockard jlockard@umich.edu
Mon, 3 Dec 2007 09:53:32 -0500


I'm curious about those using ext3...  Are you running
ext3 with or without journaling?

-John

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 06:59:29PM -0800, Jerry Normandin wrote:
> 
> Please send me a Bonnie++ report regarding your AFS setup.
> Our setup "works".. but.. it could be much faster.
> Bonnie show's me that file creation, deletion, and rename takes forever
> read/writes are fine.
> Please send me your report so I can compare. And what version of open-afs are you running.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openafs-info-admin@openafs.org on behalf of Mike Garrison
> Sent: Fri 11/30/2007 4:41 PM
> To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] File systems on Linux, again.
>  
> 
> On Nov 30, 2007, at 2:17 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> > "Jerry Normandin" <Jerry.Normandin@dafca.com> writes:
> >
> >> AFS on EXT3?  No there are Metadata issues.  EXT3 was intended for  
> >> this.
> >> I inherited a mess here that I am fixing.  My predecessor built is  
> >> using
> >> Ext3 for the /vicepa filesystems.  It takes a hell of a long time to
> >> create, Delete, or rename files.
> >
> > *shrug*.  It works just fine for us.
> 
> Works fine for us at UMich too.

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