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From: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
To: Amandine AUPETIT <amandine@jamendo.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs options
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:54:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071112155448.26a2b479@harpe.intellique.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <473844ED.7080605@jamendo.com>

Le Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:19:57 +0100
Amandine AUPETIT <amandine@jamendo.com> écrivait:

> I have a 7tb XFS filesystem. The partition is supposed to stock big 
> files between 2mo and 50mo. Quite no small files.
> 
> So i'm trying to adapt the mount option to what I need, and what I
> need is security. I want to be sure that NONE of the files will be
> lost, even if there's a power failure.

Unfortunately there isn't any such option. A power failure may be the
cause of lost files on any filesystem.

> For now, I just tried the noatime mount option, I know there is a lot
> of options, but I don't really understand what they stand for.
> 
> Do you have any suggestion to make my filesystem safer ?
> 

Use redundant power supplies, and UPS; and make backups. Backups,
backups, and backups. Keep a copy (with rsync or rsnapshot) on a
similar server as your main backup, and a backup on tape.
If your data is precious, JUST MAKE BACKUPS. 

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Emmanuel Florac     |   Intellique
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-12 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-12 12:19 xfs options Amandine AUPETIT
2007-11-12 14:54 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-11-12 14:54 ` Emmanuel Florac [this message]
2007-11-12 20:12 ` Peter Grandi

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