[Pc_Support] Re: LUNA: SuSE 9.2 Reiserfs/NFS problems .... -- NFS exported ReiserFS = bad things

[Jason Boxman]

Bryan J. Smith said:
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> Understand that Linus doesn't seem to care much about NFS.
> And SuSE has never really followed NFS much.  So much so that
> SuSE recommended Red Hat Ext3 to me, explicitly, back in
> 2000.

Is there a particular distro which a well-patched Linux kernel for NFS
duties?  Perhaps I could just apply those patches to my own kernel sources?

> SGI's XFS releases for Linux 2.4 were superb.  Other than 1
> critical flaw in the 1.0 release for Red Hat Linux 7.x, they
> were outstanding, extremely compatible and feature filled.
> Unfortunately, Red Hat sees fit to keep extended Ext3,
> instead of realizing that XFS already solves all its
> problems.
>
> And, unfortunately, the last official XFS release for Linux
> was 1.3.x for Red Hat Linux 9.  The XFS release that has been
> integrated into 2.6 is _crap_, and has NFS issues.  The XFS
> backport to 2.4 is even worse -- stick with the official
> 1.3.x release for RHL9 if you want something for 2.4.

Would applying patches for SGI's current XFS releases for Linux help any?

Thanks.