From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:30:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from amsfep11-int.chello.nl (amsfep17-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id k88IUfDW003607 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:30:42 -0700 Received: from cable-213-132-154-40.upc.chello.be ([213.132.154.40]) by amsfep11-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.6.01.05.04 201-2131-123-105-20051025) with ESMTP id <20060908172214.XVNB14551.amsfep11-int.chello.nl@cable-213-132-154-40.upc.chello.be> for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2006 19:22:14 +0200 From: Grozdan Nikolov Subject: XFS questions Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 19:23:07 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609081923.08215.microchip@chello.be> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: xfs@oss.sgi.com Hi, I have a few questions regarding the data integrity on XFS filesystems. I have 4 servers here all running on XFS partitions and I'm a bit concerned about the data integrity of an XFS filesystem. After reading a lot of benchmarks/user experiences I came to the conclusion that XFS is really very fast, as I experience it here on my servers too, but when it comes to data integrity it is wise not to use XFS for partitions containing important files as XFS may not be able to recover them after a lets say power outage. I'm also worried about the 'zeroing' thing in XFS. I have 3 questions... 1) How reliable is XFS at data-integrity? 2) Will the 'zeroing' thing be removed/fixed in the near future? 3) Will XFS ever support ordered or journalled mode like ReiserFS or Ext3? Thanks in advance and best regards, Grozdan