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The Thursday 2007-06-07 at 10:12 +0200, Morten Bjørnsvik wrote:
> Maybe that was a fact years ago with immature releases pre 2.4.19 versions.
> That is _NOT_ true now. XFS is probably the most stressed filesystem
> on the planet. Most Hollywood studio backbones and linux workstations runs
> xfs.
> It's only drawback is delete which is slow by design, because it has to
> traverse the inodes to figure out which blocks to delete and not a direct
> hashed
> pointer-table.
Slow? It is the faster deleting large files, almost instantaneous. So much
so that it is recomended for use with mythtv for that very reason.
> I've used the xfs_repair, xfsdump, xfsrestore and xfs_db tools extensively.
> I've had lots of bad blocks, zeroed inodes and other disk failures. I've
> almost
> everytime managed to restore most of the data on the disk.
I have an unrepairable xfs partition that crashes xfs_repair every time,
with a bug report.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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