From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:31:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id mAD2FUJK008723 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:15:30 -0800 Received: from femx.pixar.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id B2C441B1FD8C for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:15:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from femx.pixar.com (femx.pixar.com [199.108.77.27]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id 1Z67zM5cx67LhOZZ for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:15:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:55:04 -0800 From: Lars Damerow Subject: Re: last xfs_repair time? Message-ID: <20081113015503.GN18990@pixar.com> References: <20081112224109.GC18990@pixar.com> <491B6F4C.6030506@sgi.com> <491B7EB9.1050207@sandeen.net> <20081113012045.GL18990@pixar.com> <491B83E5.4030002@sandeen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <491B83E5.4030002@sandeen.net> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Eric Sandeen Cc: Timothy Shimmin , xfs@oss.sgi.com >>From Eric Sandeen , Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 07:33:25PM -0600: > So, for what it's worth, power loss should not necessarily require a > repair; as long as you have barriers enabled and/or you're not losing > log writes to a volatile write cache, power loss should never corrupt > the filesystem metadata; that is what the log is for, after all... Our disks are partitioned with LVM, so we don't have write barriers. We just recently disabled write caching, though, so our future should be brighter than it's been. :) -lars -- lars r. damerow :: button pusher :: pixar animation studios