On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > >> Am Montag, 24. November 2008 22:09:52 schrieb Dale: > >>> I wouldn't use XFS unless > >>> it was all that was left. I tried it once a while back and found out > >>> it does not like power failures at all. Each time I had a power > >>> failure, I had to reinstall from scratch. > >> > >> Hmm, I use it because of its resistance to power failures. When was it > >> that you had such problems? > >> > >> Bye... > >> > >> Dirk > > > > Its been a while but it happened several times. I just got tired of > > having to reinstall every time the power blinked. Turned out the wire > > was loose on the transformer so they blinked a lot, every couple days or > > so. I think it was Mandrake 9.2. > > > > I have had a power failure or two with reiserfs and it recovered. It > > did the check thing but ran fine. > > > > Just my experience. Your mileage may vary. > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :- > > I have a similar story, but for me it was JFS instead of XFS. I will > never, ever, ever use JFS for anything again. I had XFS on a file > server RAID box with a failing power supply and it died over and over > and the FS stayed functional, so YMMV indeed. (I haven't tried reiser, > I'm still scared about the corruption stories from years ago.)
the corruption stories were caused by vm changes that were not tested against reiserfs. Thank R.v.Riel, Andrea Arcangeli and of course Linus Torvalds for that mess.
