On 10/03/2013 02:16 PM, Andrew Deason wrote:
On Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:34:27 +0200
nicolas prochazka <prochazka.nico...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello again ,
after some tests to use zfs as afs cache,
linux kernel tells :
BUG : soft lockup - CPU0 stuck for 23s ! [ afs_cachetrim:2908]
Any ideas are welcome,
It seems pretty likely from your other message that using zfsonlinux for
the openafs client cache is not going to work at all until someone takes
the time to add support for it. Just use another filesystem.
Even on other platforms, ZFS has some characteristics that make it not
ideal for a cache, and in the past I've recommended using something else
when it's easy to do so (e.g. UFS on Solaris, even if it's jus on a
zvol). At least on Solaris, ZFS does some somewhat unique things with
space allocations that have created some semi-unavoidable problems for
the cache manager.
I can understand if someone is using ZFS for their root fs, and they
don't want to make a separate fs just for the cache, but if you're
making an fs just for the cache or something, it doesn't make a lot of
sense.
My impression has always been that journalling is not only not needed
for the afs cache, but even not desirable. Up until recently I'd use
the simplest thing - an ext2 partition with noatime. On my latest
installs I've begun using ext4 with the journal turned off, figuring
that with any luck afs cache blocks would map to ext4 extents, giving me
better cache performance than even ext2. Then again somewhere else, on
top of no journal, I got the options:
/dev/sdb6 /var/cache/openafs ext4
data=writeback,barrier=0,nobh,errors=remount-ro,noatime 1 2
Dale Pontius
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