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)

Eric Sandeen
2008-02-04T16:45:09Z

Moshe Yudkowsky wrote:
> So if I understand you correctly, you're stating that current the most
> reliable fs in its default configuration, in terms of protection against
> power-loss scenarios, is XFS?

I wouldn't go that far without some real-world poweroff testing, because
various fs's are probably more or less tolerant of a write-cache
evaporation. I suppose it'd depend on the size of the write cache as well.

-Eric