From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id mBDBiEUo026076 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:44:14 -0600 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 536621AB82 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:44:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de (einhorn.in-berlin.de [192.109.42.8]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id BauBR6dq9ws9OSDp for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:44:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49439FF9.50202@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:43:53 +0100 From: Stefan Richter MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Intel X25-E running Linux using XFS References: <20081212185803.GE11974@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Justin Piszcz Cc: smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net, smartmontools-database-owner@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Pavel Machek , Alan Piszcz Justin Piszcz wrote: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: >> Actually I'd like to know... how does it behave during powerfails >> while it is being written to? >> >> Flashes I seen (USB / SD) developed bad sectors in that case, and >> ext2/ext3 can't handle that. (And I don't think xfs can handle that >> either). > > I have a UPS for all of my machines, so that will not be a problem in my > case. UPSs fail too. ... > With barriers, presumably it would be safe There are other opinions: http://lwn.net/Articles/309576/ (Magnetic disks are discussed there.) -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- ==-- -==-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs