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From: Nilesh Govindrajan <contact@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird XFS problem
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:26:30
Message-Id: 4F4870A8.3070700@nileshgr.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird XFS problem by Pandu Poluan
1 On Sat 25 Feb 2012 09:35:22 AM IST, Pandu Poluan wrote:
2 >
3 > On Feb 25, 2012 10:34 AM, "Nilesh Govindrajan" <contact@××××××××.com
4 > <mailto:contact@××××××××.com>> wrote:
5 > >
6 > > Hi,
7 > >
8 > > I'm using XFS on /home and facing a strange issue. When I add acl to
9 > > the mount options in /etc/fstab, the FS fails to mount during boot
10 > > with an error in dmesg which says invalid option acl whereas I'm able
11 > > to mount it using the mount command from the CLI.
12 > >
13 > > For now I'm using a script in local.d to remount it with acl, but why
14 > > is this happening?
15 > > Also, XFS is compiled right into the kernel, not as a module (I
16 > > believe, because there's no module xfs in /lib/modules/3.2.6-gentoo.
17 > >
18 >
19 > AFAIK, by default XFS is mounted with acl support.
20 >
21 > Plus, I can't find any "acl" word in the documentation:
22 >
23 > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt;hb=HEAD
24 >
25 > CMIIW, I never use XFS before in my life.
26 >
27 > Rgds,
28 >
29
30 Well, I use XFS for performance. Earlier I was using ext4 and troubled
31 with sluggishness. Recently I came to know that ext4 has a mount option
32 data=writeback which improves performance manifolds (using that on
33 servers and it does do well than with the default ordered mode).
34
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36 Nilesh Govindarajan
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