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From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
	smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net,
	smartmontools-database-owner@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com,
	Alan Piszcz <ap@solarrain.com>
Subject: Re: Intel X25-E running Linux using XFS
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:43:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49439FF9.50202@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0812121516190.17857@p34.internal.lan>

Justin Piszcz wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> Actually I'd like to know... how does it behave during powerfails
>> while it is being written to?
>>
>> Flashes I seen (USB / SD) developed bad sectors in that case, and
>> ext2/ext3 can't handle that. (And I don't think xfs can handle that
>> either).
> 
> I have a UPS for all of my machines, so that will not be a problem in my
> case.

UPSs fail too.

...
> With barriers, presumably it would be safe

There are other opinions:  http://lwn.net/Articles/309576/
(Magnetic disks are discussed there.)
-- 
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/

      reply	other threads:[~2008-12-13 11:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-27 21:54 Intel X25-E running Linux using XFS Justin Piszcz
2008-11-27 22:12 ` Russell Smith
2008-12-12 18:58 ` Pavel Machek
2008-12-12 20:23   ` Justin Piszcz
2008-12-13 11:43     ` Stefan Richter [this message]

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