[OpenAFS] Best Filesystem

[Christopher D. Clausen]

Jason C. Wells <jcw@highperformance.net> wrote:
> Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
>> So your server OS is Solaris
>
> No.  My server OS is debian. My client OS are FreeBSD, debian, XP. 
> Your assumption that file system suitability is determined purely by
> OS is limited.  ZFS appears to ready for prime time on BSD and Linux
> or it will be soon enough for me to start thinking about adopting it.

Your assumption is that just because an OS supports a filesystem, that 
OpenAFS will support it for a client cache.  This is not the case. 
Support for ZFS caches on Solaris does NOT mean that ZFS on Linux would 
work.

I'd stick with etx2/ext3 caches on Linux if I were you.

You are welcome to try it out, but I'm fairly certain you'll run into 
strange errors using ZFS on Linux as an afs cache partition.

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