[Gllug] Anybody with experience of Bacula

[Bruce Richardson]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:43:05PM +0000, Mike wrote:
> > Users of certain fs types don't have a choice. "dump" is only safe on a 
> > few filesystems, XFS for one.
> 
> Yeah - that's why I use XFS :-).

I like XFS but we've been encountering reasons to be wary of it.  Latest
issue was stack corruption under kernels with 4K stacks.  Our experience
has been that combining XFS with either of LVM or MD can be a bit risky
and all three together, especially under 2.6, raises the risk level
significantly.

AIUI, much of the development on LVM and MD is done at Red Hat, where
they only use ext2/3.  Other filesystem drivers have to play catchup and
XFS on Linux possibly isn't as quick at this game.

-- 
Bruce

I object to intellect without discipline.  I object to power without
constructive purpose. -- Spock
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