>after several sysadmins had used it with no problems - even power outages. >In fact before they implemented it they did extensive tests by pulling the >plug. XFS came back up and ran without a hitch and that has been born out >through actual experience. One of it's strong points is the robustness and >ability to take hits ext2 can't handle. Another nice feature is it recovers >from outages quickly where on big file systems ext2 can take 30+ minutes to >fsck.
Heh, say that to my mp3 pentium2 gentoo box which now registers mod_php as pornview.... Pull the plug out of the box right after compilation and while it is installing the program, libraries and files in their respective locations and tell me what happens. Also, do some work on a file for 3 hours without saving and then go ahead and save while pulling the plug out of the box 1/4-1/2 second after doing C-x C-s or pressing save and you tell me how much of the file is there... I would be more than willing to bet the last 3-5 seconds worth of saving, work and general changes you made before an abrupt shutdown have been L O S T. This box is 90% XFS on LVM on RAID-0... trust me, I *enjoy* using XFS, but have found abrupt losses of power have you lose the last 3-5 seconds of work you were doing on the system. I understand the extensive tests, but I'm also speaking out of my own personal experience. Yes, a box on XFS comes RIGHT UP after a hard shutdown, but things are and will be missing. If you dont take my word for it, maybe you will believe: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml XFS is a filesystem with metadata journaling that is fully supported under Gentoo Linux's xfs-sources kernel, but is generally not recommended due to its tendency to lose recently-modified data if your system locks up or unexpectedly reboots (as a result of power failure, for instance) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
