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On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 17:33 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Dale wrote: |
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> > Howdy, |
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> > I did a install of Mandriva recently and found out this bit of info. If |
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> > you have frequent power failures and no UPS, do NOT use XFS. It was a |
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> > nightmare to get back up because of things not getting started again and |
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> > I just reinstalled Mandriva with reiserfs. It worked very well with |
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> > Reiserfs but XFS was not something I want to try on that machine again |
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> > for sure. |
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> Yes, it's well known that XFS sucks with unexpected power loss, Reiser |
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> and JFS less so. ext3 remains the most reliable filesystem. |
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I'd be curious who this is well-know to. The only XFS filesystem I've |
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ever lost (having used XFS exclusively since SGI started offering it on |
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RH 7.?) was due to bad RAM. There *have* been a couple of issues that |
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I'm aware of, but I'd hardly call it "sucking". |
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Regards, |
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Cliff |
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