From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: John Quigley <jquigley@jquigley.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, XFS Development <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Best design docs for XFS
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:47:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A81AEC3.1060200@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A81A9F9.4030509@jquigley.com>
John Quigley wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
...
>> Is there anything specific you're looking for?
>
> In my work, I've just begun to use XFS as the interface into a very
> large, virtual storage system, to great effect. It's my first direct
> interaction with the file system, and I've been hugely impressed with
> its power, speed and versatility.
>
> The only unresolved problem that we're experiencing has to do with
> file system corruption in a failover scenario, and my immediate need
> in understanding some of the internals is to wrap my hands around
> this problem (I may email this list with details if I can
> sufficiently explain myself).
Any failover you're doing would need to be handled outside the
filesystem, of course; STONITH etc? I don't know that reading xfs
internals will be all that relevant.
But I suppose the details may help if you think it is an xfs-related
problem.
> A more long-term need we have is for clustering support. I've read
> lightly about CXFS, though it appears to be inactive, or at least not
> open source. Has clustering support been discussed with the members
> here? If so, I'd like to take part in those conversations if there's
> sufficient interest to engage in that way.
CXFS is and probably will be the only direct clustering mechanism for
xfs... it is still active, though as you note it is not (and probably
will never be?) open source.
block-layer failover should be as possible on xfs as any other
filesystem, though.
-Eric
> Thanks very much again.
>
> John Quigley jquigley.com
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-10 21:23 Best design docs for XFS John Quigley
2009-08-10 22:56 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-08-11 2:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-11 17:27 ` John Quigley
2009-08-11 17:47 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
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