Rob Banz wrote: > > On Nov 29, 2007, at 07:41, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > >> Am Donnerstag, 29. November 2007 schrieb ext Harald Barth: >>>> We use openafs clients on a lot of machines. The local Filesystems are >>>> usually reiser. But for the DiskCache we have to install one partition >>>> with ext2. >>> >>> To all my experience, reiserfs is broken. I recommend NOT to use that >>> file system. At all. >> >> OK. replase reiser with xfs, jfs, whatever. I guess the real question >> was: >> What's the reason why one should not use other filesystems than ext2 for >> the cache partition on a Linux client? > > For a cache partition, at least on other *ixes, the cache partition > has always needed special attention because of the way its used by the > AFS kernel module. Certain care has to be taken as to do operations > in such a way that kernel deadlocks and such are avoided. For > example, on Solaris you use ufs, however, you can't use logging ufs > because of known deadlock problems. > > I'd assume that the use of ext2 on Linux is for a similar reason. > > -rob Fascinating. I did not know of UFS logging issue on the cache partition. Strangely, I haven't heard of any issues. does ext3 have this issue as well?
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