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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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> Thanks, |
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> Donnie |
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It was fast though. It seemed to do well on that but no power failures |
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is a must to be sure. At least now I know it was not just picking on |
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me. Things usually do that. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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