[CentOS] XFS + LVM

2008-05-21 Thread Alain Terriault, Mr.
Hi, I see old post on the web discouraging the use of XFS on top of LVM, mostly seems to be driver problems .. in any case it was not reassuring. I was wondering, with current drivers and kernels (CentOS5), if they are any issue doing so. I have no real need for LVM, I am just use to it and occa

Re: [CentOS] XFS + LVM

2008-05-21 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Alain Terriault, Mr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any comments will be more than welcome, The biggest issue with XFS has been the 4kstack limitation on the x86 kernel. If you're using x86_64, you should have no real problem with xfs on top of LVM, because the x86_

Re: [CentOS] XFS + LVM

2008-05-21 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Jim Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're using x86_64, you should have no real problem with > xfs on top of LVM, because the x86_64 kernel uses 8K stacks instead. > Also, keep in mind that grub in centos doesn't play well with > partitions larger than 2TB,

Re: [CentOS] XFS + LVM

2008-05-21 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Alain Terriault, Mr. wrote: > Hi, > > I see old post on the web discouraging the use of XFS on top of LVM, > mostly seems to be driver problems .. in any case it was not reassuring. > > I was wondering, with current drivers and kernels (CentOS5), if they are > any issue do