Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Dale wrote: > >> Howdy, >> >> I did a install of Mandriva recently and found out this bit of info. If >> you have frequent power failures and no UPS, do NOT use XFS. It was a >> nightmare to get back up because of things not getting started again and >> I just reinstalled Mandriva with reiserfs. It worked very well with >> Reiserfs but XFS was not something I want to try on that machine again >> for sure. >> > > Yes, it's well known that XFS sucks with unexpected power loss, Reiser > and JFS less so. ext3 remains the most reliable filesystem. > > Thanks, > Donnie > > It was fast though. It seemed to do well on that but no power failures is a must to be sure. At least now I know it was not just picking on me. Things usually do that.
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