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