[OpenAFS] Best Filesystem

Jason C. Wells jcw@highperformance.net
Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:54:23 -0700


Christopher D. Clausen wrote:
> 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.
That's the sort of heads up that I was hoping to get.  Thanks!

Jason