On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 23:23, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>Hmm, this is strange.  I've been using XFS for a couple of months and 
started 
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.

> You need to emerge xfs-sources for support  XFS of
> filesystems. I've been using XFS for a few months now, but I wouldnt
> use it on a computer which is not connected to a UPS since I've had
> a few nasty accidents with XFS where shutting down in the middle of
> an emerge has left my system crippled (on a computer NOT on a UPS).
>
> If you have a UPS then I suggest you give the XFS filesystem a
> try... but please make sure to read more about it, since you can
> loose data if you are not careful and do a hard shutdown in the
> middle of something important.
>
> Louis C. Candell


well i have been using xfs saince it's introduction to the linux kernel and i absolutley love it. it has proved far seperior to reiser/ext3/jfs to me on several plains, i will never switch to somethig else, here is my fs layout:

Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc1              xfs    941M  112M  830M  12% /
none                     proc       0     0     0   -  /proc
none                     devfs       0     0     0   -  /dev
tmpfs                     tmpfs    2.0M   28K  2.0M   2% /mnt/.init.d
/dev/hda1              xfs     63M  5.7M   57M  10% /boot
none                     devpts       0     0     0   -  /dev/pts
/dev/hde1              xfs     38G   28G  9.6G  75% /opt
/dev/hde2              xfs     38G   28G  9.4G  75% /home
/dev/hda3              xfs    941M   40M  902M   5% /tmp
/dev/hda4              xfs     17G  4.5G   13G  27% /usr
/dev/sdc2              xfs     16G  4.9G   11G  32% /usr/local
/dev/hda2              xfs    941M  163M  779M  18% /var
/dev/backup/lvol1   xfs     15G  4.3G   11G  29% /var/tmp

i never have a problem, and i live in upstate ny where power outage are more frequent than sex, okay that is a bad example to anybody that reads this mailing list, but for me it's alot.

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