On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 01:39:18PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Volkan YAZICI put forth on 7/27/2010 12:19 PM: > > > About a year ago, in a similar rush to yours, I ported two of our > > PostgreSQL database servers to XFS. During testing period, I even > > couldn't *recover* the / fs after the very first power failure test. > > What write operations were you performing at the time you pulled the plug? > Unless you were writing the superblock it'd be almost impossible to hose the > filesystem to the point it couldn't mount. Were you doing a resize operation > when you pulled the plug? xfs_growfs? As far as recovery, it's automatic > upon mounting the XFS filesystem. What do you mean, precisely, by "couldn't > *recover* the / fs"? > Some anecdotal evidence in support of ext3's resilience to power loss:
I recently lost power while my system was running. When power was restored, an fsck was automatically performed. During that fsck, I lost power again! I thought for sure I'd be hosed, but after the power came back and an fsck completed, everything seems to be working normally. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100727213610.ga14...@aurora.owens.net