On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 20:46:55 -0700 Andrew Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Collins wrote: > <snip> > > Nor has EXT3 ever failed this (usually unintentional) test for me. > > I did have a reiserfs system fail to recover after a lockup (about 3 > > years ago), but I'm user the current reiserfs is stable now. > > > > I truly wish I could say the same, but unfortunately that was one of > > the failings we could demonstrate fairly consistently. During a 2 hour > > evaluation before our Chief Justice, CEO, and CIO, as well as the > management team, ext3 never did survive 5 hard resets in a row. We > rebuilt the machines exactly the same, only difference being on an xfs > > filesystem, all packages were the same. xfs still, to this day, has > never failed to recover itself, even under almost 100% load. We > migrated our Informix database from raw logical partitions under AIX > to xfs partitions under linux and the data set was monitored for > corruption at the moment of impact with absolutely NO loss. [ snips ] > Ext3 works great for most people, but I've had and seen too many > problems to consider it ready for a production machine in our > environment. I'm glad you've had good luck with it though. > > -- Good to know. I'll probably move to XFS when it becomes part of the mainstream in the 2.6 kernel. I hate patches, most especially patches that aren't always compatible with the rest of kernel development. Also, in the past, not every distro has XFS support, so I would get into the catch-22 situation of needing something from an XFS partition and not being able to mount it. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area gentoo 1.4 system _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
