From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 17:35:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 17:35:05 -0500 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([212.227.14.2]:17436 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 17:34:56 -0500 From: W1012@lina.inka.de To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: XFS file system Pre-Release Message-Id: Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 23:34:56 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <200102012138.f11LcV322920@jen.americas.sgi.com> you wrote: >> What support does XFS provide for clustering? >> Pavel > This statement is a little misleading, the clustering software is other > stuff from SGI, they just have xfs filesystems on the machines. One reason for this is, that in a shared nothing cluster on fail over you may have to have a filesystem check. and that is simly taking too long if you do not have a log filesystem. Thats why reiser, jfs, xfs or ext3 makes sense here. Greetings Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/