On Saturday 28 October 2006 16:41, b.n. wrote: > Dale ha scritto: > > If you use XFS, make sure you have good power. XFS does not like power > > failures at all. I have had to reinstall on a second rig because of > > this very problem. If you have a UPS, that may be OK. > > Thanks a lot for the advice. Power outages do happen and I don't have an > UPS. Why does it happen? Isn't XFS journaled? >
a) journaling does not prevent data loss. It prevents fs corruption b) XFS does very aggressive caching. Do you have a power outage, you might be lucky, or you might be screwed. -- [email protected] mailing list
