Re: [CentOS] xfs, inode64, and NFS

2012-03-07 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 7, 2012, at 1:16 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/07/12 6:47 AM, Ross Walker wrote: >> These days XFS should always be inode64 enabled, given the size of disks, >> and NFS should have been fixed a long, long time ago. > > yes. problem is, we have clients that are running all sorts of OS

Re: [CentOS] xfs, inode64, and NFS

2012-03-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:46 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/07/12 11:27 AM, Warren Young wrote: >> Why do those embedded systems have to see a whole 74 TB storage midden? >>    Why not slice off a 1 TB or so LVM slice for them? > > LVM management blows chunks.  each of these arrays (we have dozen

Re: [CentOS] xfs, inode64, and NFS

2012-03-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/07/12 11:27 AM, Warren Young wrote: > Why do those embedded systems have to see a whole 74 TB storage midden? >Why not slice off a 1 TB or so LVM slice for them? LVM management blows chunks. each of these arrays (we have dozens of these 74TiB storage servers) will end up nearly filled

Re: [CentOS] xfs, inode64, and NFS

2012-03-07 Thread Warren Young
On 3/7/2012 11:16 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/07/12 6:47 AM, Ross Walker wrote: >> These days XFS should always be inode64 enabled, given the size of disks, >> and NFS should have been fixed a long, long time ago. > > yes. problem is, we have clients that are running all sorts of OS's, > inc

Re: [CentOS] xfs, inode64, and NFS

2012-03-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/07/12 6:47 AM, Ross Walker wrote: > These days XFS should always be inode64 enabled, given the size of disks, and > NFS should have been fixed a long, long time ago. yes. problem is, we have clients that are running all sorts of OS's, including older versions of Solaris... this is a man

Re: [CentOS] xfs, inode64, and NFS

2012-03-07 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 7, 2012, at 2:17 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/06/12 10:40 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: >> I've had to use inode64 on far smaller file systems (15TB) due to inode >> counts (many files) and not file system size. > > > My understanding of it is, the inode number is its physical positio

Re: [CentOS] xfs, inode64, and NFS

2012-03-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/06/12 10:40 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: > I've had to use inode64 on far smaller file systems (15TB) due to inode > counts (many files) and not file system size. My understanding of it is, the inode number is its physical position on the disk. if the first 1TB (2^31 * 512) of the disk h

Re: [CentOS] xfs, inode64, and NFS

2012-03-06 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Mar 6, 2012, at 6:59 PM, John R Pierce | wrote: | | > On 03/06/12 3:51 PM, Ross Walker wrote: | >> Is there a need for inode64? Is it too late to back-out of it, or | >> have you pickled the file system already. | > | > as i undertsand it, you need inode64 on an

Re: [CentOS] xfs, inode64, and NFS

2012-03-06 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 6, 2012, at 6:59 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/06/12 3:51 PM, Ross Walker wrote: >> Is there a need for inode64? Is it too late to back-out of it, or have you >> pickled the file system already. > > as i undertsand it, you need inode64 on any XFS file system over 2TiB, > and ours is

Re: [CentOS] xfs, inode64, and NFS

2012-03-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/06/12 3:51 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > Is there a need for inode64? Is it too late to back-out of it, or have you > pickled the file system already. as i undertsand it, you need inode64 on any XFS file system over 2TiB, and ours is 74TiB. -- john r pierceN 37

Re: [CentOS] xfs, inode64, and NFS

2012-03-06 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 6, 2012, at 4:36 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/02/12 10:05 AM, John R Pierce wrote: >> is anyone familiar with this inode64 stuff and NFS in EL6.2 ? > > still having show stopping issues with XFS, inode64, and NFS. the > fsid=uuid option suggested by some googling doesn't seem to wo

Re: [CentOS] xfs, inode64, and NFS

2012-03-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/02/12 10:05 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > is anyone familiar with this inode64 stuff and NFS in EL6.2 ? still having show stopping issues with XFS, inode64, and NFS. the fsid=uuid option suggested by some googling doesn't seem to work at all for Solaris clients... http://xfs.org/index.php/X

[CentOS] xfs, inode64, and NFS

2012-03-02 Thread John R Pierce
we recently deployed some large XFS file systems with centos 6.2 used as NFS servers... I've had some reports of a problem similar to the one reported here... http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/red-hat-31/xfs-inode64-nfs-export-no_subtree_check-and-stale-nfs-file-handle-message-855844/ thes