Hi, Am Montag, den 11.07.2005, 18:18 -0700 schrieb Mark Ferlatte: > I've heard rumours that some of the Linux filesystems aren't as stable > as they should be on AMD64; in particular, I've heard of bad things > happening with JFS and XFS. > > That being said, I can't find anything even approaching authoritative, > so I thought I'd ask: > > What filesystems are you guys using, and anyone had any bad experiences? I always used XFS on 32bit and was happy with it. Some month ago I installed an Ubuntu/64bit with XFS as IMAP/POP3 server. After some weeks the machine crashed, since I had misconfigured a spamfilter that ate up all ressources. The filesystem was damaged, and I repaired it from a rescue CD. Since some binaries appeared in /lost +found, I --reinstall'ed all installed packages, and everything was fine. My faults until to here. Two weeks later the machine crashed again. This time I found a message in syslog that said XFS-Data had been corrupted in RAM and the filesystem would be remounted read-only. That broke some processes, so I could not login anymore. I shutdown by sysrequest-keys. Again, the filesystem was damaged. I ran a Ramtest from a CD. No problems. Two weeks later the machine crashed again. Same message in syslog. Filesystem damaged. I decided to run the machine without fam (since I had no better idea) The machine then worked for another two weeks, then I did a kernel-update and rebooted. So, the countdown is reset to start... I do not want to blame XFS, but that looks suspicious to me. Bye, Ratti -- -o) fontlinge | Fontmanagement for Linux | Schriftenverwaltung in Linux /\\ http://freshmeat.net/projects/fontlinge/ _\_V http://www.gesindel.de https://sourceforge.net/projects/fontlinge/
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part