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You can use any filesystem that support sparse files for the node disk. That is, xfs is available.
g
Thank you for your answer. So it would be no problem to use XFS for the node disk but then use ext4 vor Longhorn Volumes in the StorageClass?
i
XFS for the node disk is OK. For Longhorn volume, we recommend ext4 because ext4 is more stable.
g
That's correct, we are currently using XFS for our Volumes but experience lots of filesystem corruption, especially when short network outages happen. We had Weave restart at automatic RKE Update and it crashed all our PVC's and ~30% of them were corrupt afterwards
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i
Got it. Using ext4 for LH volumes should be better according to other users’ feedback and our experiences.
g
Changing StorageClass from xfs to ext4 is possible in production? It will only affect volumes that are created after StorageClass change?
i
No. It only affects volumes that are created after StorageClass change.
cc @famous-shampoo-18483 @famous-journalist-11332 @salmon-doctor-9726 XFS filesystem corruption issues caused by network outages.
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f
BTW, if you want to switch to EXT4, you may need to stop the IO for the corresponding volumes then try the migration: https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn/blob/master/examples/data_migration.yaml
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g
Thank you all for this helpful information. We will try the migration from XFS to EXT4 very soon with our customer
i
@gifted-stone-19912 We are investigating the XFS corruption issue. There are some questions. In your case, what’s the longhorn version? What are the workloads those are using the corrupted volume?
g
Hi @icy-agency-38675, we mostly have v1.1.1 on the line, planning to upgrade. We experienced the most volume corruption with high i/o workload like mysql or mongodb databases.
We just had an outage on the weekend and the only PVC's that didn't came back up were all mongoDB PVC's. I could repair all of them without data loss. Some of them were even running on 1.2.4 and it seemed that 1.2.4 is overall more stable even with XFS
i
@gifted-stone-19912 Thank for the information. We just identified the root cause of the corruption. FYI. https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn/issues/3597#issuecomment-1251802416
g
@icy-agency-38675 thank you for this information, sounds absolutely awesome. Just so that I understand correctly: for ext4 < Longhorn 1.3.0 there is no issue currently? Also, when this fix is applied, does this automatically work for all the existing volumes or do we need to create new ones on the new version?
i
for ext4 < Longhorn 1.3.0 there is no issue currently
Yes. According to our test, ext4 in longhorn < 1.3.0 should be fine.
does this automatically work for all the existing volumes
Yes. it will automatically work.
g
is already known when 1.2.6 is being released? does 1.2.6 contain the fix?
f
We don’t know the date for 1.2.6 yet but yeah 1.2.6 will contain the fix
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