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On Friday 15 February 2008, Dale wrote: |
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> Little addition to XFS, I tried it once a while ago. Every time the |
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> power failed, it would never boot again. I can say from personal |
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> experience and from what I have read from others, if you plan to use |
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> XFS, have a good UPS hooked up. It does not like power failures at |
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> all. YMMV |
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XFS was designed to be used in environments where the admin is supposed |
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to GUARANTEE zero power outages. |
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SGI built it for their mips machines doing cool stuff like video |
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rendering. If you have a multi-million $ render farm churning out |
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Hollywood's latest blockbuster complete with special effects, it is |
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entirely reasonable to expect that the environment has UPS backup par |
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excellence. |
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So, using XFS on regular pcs without a UPS (or even with those dinky |
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little 10 minute uptime jobs) is a gross misuse of the XFS technology |
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IMNSHO. It simply was not built for that, in almost exactly the same |
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way that Lamborghini did not build the Murcielago so you could nip down |
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to the shops with it and buy a pack of fags... |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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