From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:20:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m910Ienw007191 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:18:41 -0700 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 4CE051B4FBE9 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:20:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id fAOFB896Xh2NzVv8 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:20:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.19.0.93] (c-67-164-30-157.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.164.30.157]) (authenticated bits=0) by shards.monkeyblade.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m910KDRv022148 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:20:14 -0700 Subject: XFS website remiss From: "J.H." Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:20:15 -0700 Message-Id: <1222820415.2854.78.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: xfs@oss.sgi.com Afternoon everyone, Since I happened to be rebuilding a couple of machines and was poking around on the XFS website (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/) - I noticed that it's remiss in one of the more prominent users - kernel.org. =============== A bit more than a year ago kernel.org, in an ever increasing need to squeeze more performance out of it's machines, made the leap of migrating the primary mirror machines (mirrors.kernel.org) to XFS. We site a number of reasons including fscking 5.5T of disk is long and painful, we were hitting various cache issues, and we were seeking better performance out of our file system. After initial tests looked positive we made the jump, and have been quite happy with the results. With an instant increase in performance and throughput, as well as the worst xfs_check we've ever seen taking 10 minutes, we were quite happy. Subsequently we've moved all primary mirroring file-systems to XFS, including www.kernel.org , and mirrors.kernel.org. With an average constant movement of about 400mbps around the world, and with peaks into the 3.1gbps range serving thousands of users simultaneously it's been a file system that has taken the brunt we can throw at it and held up spectacularly. =============== - John 'Warthog9' Hawley Chief Kernel.org Administrator