I just happened to be reviewing the current Gentoo Handbook - a work in progress, and I noted the following recommendation for XFS..
4.i. Creating Filesystems ... [ other fs descriptions] "XFS is a filesystem with metadata journaling that is fully supported under Gentoo Linux's xfs-sources kernel. It comes with a robust feature-set and is optimized for scalability. We only recommend using this filesystem on Linux systems with high-end SCSI and/or fibre channel storage and a uninterruptible power supply. Because XFS aggressively caches in-transit data in RAM, improperly designed programs (those that don't take proper precautions when writing files to disk and there are quite a few of them) can lose a good deal of data if the system goes down unexpectedly." ... [ other fs desciptions ] It is interesting that this recommendation is only present for XFS among the journaled filesystem choices. What is the justification for this putdown of XFS? I communicate with other groups, and almost universally people sing the praises of XFS (including use for critical servers). Is this just an old wives tale from the early days of XFS? Did someone put this in and it was never reviewed? Almost anyone I talk to maintains that XFS recovers from power failures just as well as any other journaling fs. Thanks, -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
