From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:10:28 +1000
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On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:56:12PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> I did spend a bunch of time once ensuring that when you typed
> sync on xfs you could pull the power right after that and
> everything from before the sync survived. There have been a
> lot of changes both in xfs and the surrounding kernel since
> then. I do not know if anyone has attempted this effort
> again recently.

Yep, someone has, a number of times.  And as Homer would say
"its still good!".

cheers.

-- 
Nathan