Carlos E. R. wrote: > > 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. > FWIW, I recently tried installing Ubuntu and thought I'd try XFS for a change. I got a warning message that GRUB has problems with XFS, so I went with JFS on the boot partition instead and XFS on /home.
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