From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:42:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.168.28]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m14EgHrB031569 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 06:42:22 -0800 Received: from sandeen.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 1BD75D814DD for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 06:42:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from sandeen.net (sandeen.net [209.173.210.139]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id 0H72o639FJS6AYDh for ; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:42:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <47A7245E.4070207@sandeen.net> Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:42:38 -0600 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: RAID needs more to survive a power hit, different /boot layout for example (was Re: draft howto on making raids for surviving a disk crash) References: <47A612BE.5050707@pobox.com> <47A623EE.4050305@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <47A62A17.70101@pobox.com> <47A6DA81.3030008@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <47A6EFCF.9080906@pobox.com> <47A7188A.4070005@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <47A72061.3010800@sandeen.net> In-Reply-To: <47A72061.3010800@sandeen.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Justin Piszcz Cc: Michael Tokarev , Moshe Yudkowsky , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com Eric Sandeen wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: > >> Why avoid XFS entirely? >> >> esandeen, any comments here? > > Heh; well, it's the meme. > > see: > > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#nulls > > and note that recent fixes have been made in this area (also noted in > the faq) Actually, continue reading past that specific entry to the next several, it covers all this quite well. -Eric