-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-06-06 at 13:03 +0100, Matthew Stringer wrote:
I've a server with 24 500GB SATA 2 hard drives with RAID5 running 10.2.
It also has a pair of small disks for the OS with ext3 FS and the large 11TB LV was using ReiserFS.
The box was OK, but I found that when it was under heavy load the LV would lock up, where I was unable to read or write to it, the only way to get it back was a hard reset as the partition refused to unmount.
My understanding is that the limit for ReiserFS is 17.6TB's so I'm well within the limit.
I think you may be hitting what people say that reiserfs doesn't scale well. Let me see if I can find a reference... ah, here: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2006-09/msg00542.html [Jeff Mahoney] ] ReiserFS has serious scalability problems. David Chinner's talk at OLS ] really underscored the problem well for a single, large, high bandwidth ] file system. While I realize that XFS-style scalability isn't a real ] goal for most users, ans isn't a target workload for reiserfs, the ] scalability problems are real. ReiserFS uses the BKL for synchronization ] everywhere, and since it's system-global lock, the problem doesn't go ] away when you split the file system into smaller ones. Lock contention ] alone is one problem, but it's made worse by cache bouncing between ] processors on larger systems. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGZxS4tTMYHG2NR9URAsxcAJ9LsLjBnMh7RKlb0loxR4zYeWbSwACfVRzZ gbDr6wQ+btuoeYHRuaZHs+Q= =nJfk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org