From: "Geir A. Myrestrand" <geir.myrestrand@falconstor.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Questions about XFS
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:41:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F95B21.9040603@falconstor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703151007.32630.clflush@chello.be>
clflush wrote:
> On the one hand you have the old Ext3 FS which doesn't perform very well in
> many areas but IMO is a lot safer to work on (doesn't loose data that easily
> compared to XFS - and I'm talking from experience here because I use both
> file systems and I lost much more on the XFS system than on the Ext3 one) and
> on the other hand you have this excellent XFS file system with its clean
> layout and awesome performance + fancy features like GRIO, extents, allocate
> on flush, real time volumes, etc *but* is not "safe" enough to work with if
> you have unreliable hardware and/or a lot of power outage issues - I've
> never lost data on Ext3 during a power outage but already lost 2 times data
> on XFS
You *always* use a UPS when you use XFS.
XFS does not prevent power outages [yet]...
> Just my $0.02
Save them for a UPS. ;-)
--
Geir A. Myrestrand
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-15 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-13 13:40 Questions about XFS clflush
2007-03-13 15:36 ` Klaus Strebel
2007-03-13 15:53 ` Stein M. Hugubakken
2007-03-13 15:55 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-03-14 16:33 ` Stewart Smith
2007-03-15 4:26 ` Taisuke Yamada
2007-03-15 9:07 ` clflush
2007-03-15 14:41 ` Geir A. Myrestrand [this message]
2007-03-16 10:36 ` Martin Steigerwald
2007-03-17 0:47 ` Jason White
2007-03-29 15:07 ` cache flush support in SATA drives (was: Re: Questions about XFS) Martin Steigerwald
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-06-11 9:56 Questions about XFS Steve Bergman
2013-06-11 13:10 ` Emmanuel Florac
2013-06-11 13:35 ` Stefan Ring
2013-06-11 13:52 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-06-11 13:59 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-06-11 16:12 ` Steve Bergman
2013-06-11 17:19 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-06-11 17:27 ` Stefan Ring
2013-06-11 17:31 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-06-11 17:41 ` Stefan Ring
2013-06-11 18:03 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-06-11 19:30 ` Steve Bergman
2013-06-11 21:03 ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-11 21:43 ` Steve Bergman
2013-06-11 17:59 ` Ben Myers
2013-06-11 17:28 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-06-11 19:17 ` Steve Bergman
2013-06-11 21:47 ` Dave Chinner
2013-07-22 14:59 ` Steve Bergman
2013-07-22 15:16 ` Steve Bergman
2013-06-12 8:26 ` Roger Oberholtzer
2013-06-12 10:34 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-06-12 13:52 ` Roger Oberholtzer
2013-06-12 12:12 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-06-12 13:48 ` Roger Oberholtzer
2013-06-13 0:48 ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-11 19:35 ` Ben Myers
2013-06-11 19:55 ` Steve Bergman
2013-06-11 20:08 ` Ben Myers
2013-06-11 21:57 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2013-06-11 22:18 ` Steve Bergman
2013-10-25 14:28 harryxiyou
2013-10-25 14:42 ` Emmanuel Florac
2013-10-25 14:57 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-10-25 16:24 ` harryxiyou
2013-10-25 16:44 ` harryxiyou
2013-10-26 10:41 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-10-27 3:29 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-10-25 16:13 ` harryxiyou
2013-10-25 16:16 ` Eric Sandeen
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