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On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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> >> Am Montag, 24. November 2008 22:09:52 schrieb Dale: |
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> >>> I wouldn't use XFS unless |
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> >>> it was all that was left. I tried it once a while back and found out |
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> >>> it does not like power failures at all. Each time I had a power |
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> >>> failure, I had to reinstall from scratch. |
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> >> |
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> >> Hmm, I use it because of its resistance to power failures. When was it |
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> >> that you had such problems? |
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> >> |
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> >> Bye... |
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> >> |
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> >> Dirk |
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> > |
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> > Its been a while but it happened several times. I just got tired of |
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> > having to reinstall every time the power blinked. Turned out the wire |
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> > was loose on the transformer so they blinked a lot, every couple days or |
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> > so. I think it was Mandrake 9.2. |
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> > |
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> > I have had a power failure or two with reiserfs and it recovered. It |
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> > did the check thing but ran fine. |
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> > |
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> > Just my experience. Your mileage may vary. |
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> > |
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> > Dale |
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> > |
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> > :-) :- |
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> |
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> I have a similar story, but for me it was JFS instead of XFS. I will |
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> never, ever, ever use JFS for anything again. I had XFS on a file |
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> server RAID box with a failing power supply and it died over and over |
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> and the FS stayed functional, so YMMV indeed. (I haven't tried reiser, |
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> I'm still scared about the corruption stories from years ago.) |
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the corruption stories were caused by vm changes that were not tested against |
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reiserfs. Thank R.v.Riel, Andrea Arcangeli and of course Linus Torvalds for |
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that mess. |
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