Subject: Re: Building a huge file server
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org, current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/05/2006 23:34:16
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:01:53PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 06:00:34PM +0200, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> > NetBSD also have an LFS filesystem which is still work in progress.
> > But I did a lot of testing recently with LFS and was surprised about
> > stability and speed. You should give it a try.
>
> However do use a recent snapshot of the netbsd-3 branch when deploying
> LFS in production. Recently a bunch of important LFS fixes have been
> pulled up from current into that branch, and those fixes are not present
> in the latest 3.0.1 release. They will be in NetBSD 3.1 though.
After those fixes my filesystem got corrupted in such a way that fsck
dumped core on it, which never happened before under the same workload.
I'm back at 3.0_RC5 now...
Pavel