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On 7/18/06, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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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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Yeah, I can't deny that. |
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Fortunately for my laptop, "unexpected power loss" is never an issue. |
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Lockups still are though, so I make sure to build with SysRq support. |
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I would guess that in 99% of cases where a hard reset is necessary, |
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Alt-SysRq-s (emergency sync) and Alt-SysRq-u (remount read-only) still |
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work. I just have to remember to wait until the disk light goes out |
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before Alt-SysRq-b (reboot). I forgot once, and my running VMWare |
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session lost its config file and corrupted its disk image! |
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It also helps to fiddle with the vm and xfs sysctl settings so that |
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XFS doesn't sit there with unsync'd data that is 10-20 minutes old! |
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-Richard |
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