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On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:33:27 +0800 |
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Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@×××.com> wrote: |
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> I too use XFS for my Home Directory. I think I've suffered 1 instance of |
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> curruption in the entire 2 years I've had this laptop. (Touch Wood) |
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Perhaps I should mention one of the main reasons I use XFS - the tools. Performance |
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is not a reason. Reliability is a reason. And the tools. |
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xfs_check and xfs_repair are about the best I've seen. No, if your LVM superblock is |
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trashed, they won't fix it. They fix the filesystem, not the disk/partition structure. |
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And xfs_dump/xfs_restore make cloning a partition very easy. Given all the discussion |
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in this list alone about cloning drives, I'm really surprised more people don't adopt XFS |
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just for this issue alone. |
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Disclaimer - yes I work for SGI. No I don't develop, I break software. And I pull plugs |
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on running systems. So any advice I give here on anything related to SGI products |
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should be treated with caution. No, I don't speak for SGI. And yes I really do use XFS |
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on almost all my systems - Trying ext3 on a Kurobox (200 MHz PPC runnng Gentoo) and |
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RiserFS on one of the desktop x86 systems. |
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Bob |
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