Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: Free-standing Portage / Recent stage3 tarballs / Beta

[Dale]

Alex Howells wrote:
> On 05/02/2008, Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net> wrote:
>
>> If you plan to use XFS, make sure your UPS is working.  In my
>> experience, it does not like power failures at all.  Maybe things have
>> changed since tho.
>>
>>
>
> It uses very aggressive caching to get decent speed. Take a decent
> database box with 32GB RAM, assume MySQL is underworked at the moment
> and using 11GB then your power quits on ya.... chances are you just
> lost 21GB of your "most used" data which would probably be most of
> /var/lib/mysql ;)
>
> Under no circumstances is XFS safe without a UPS.  It has not improved
> in this regard and probably never will.  Anyone advising you to deploy
> XFS in a production environment without UPS on 'critical' data is a
> fool.
>
> Just my two cents, of course, and lets get back on topic? :)
>

That was my point.  I lost a install once because of XFS and a power
failure.  It would not even think of booting again.  I'm on reiserfs
here and so far, so good.  I guess all file systems have some good
points and some bad points.  Just got to know them before you choose the
wrong one.  :/

On point tho, is the last available "official" stage3 tarball the same
as the one on the 2007 CD?

Dale

:-)  :-)