From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o47BYBGX160463 for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 06:34:11 -0500 Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 9E1591DE64DA for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 04:36:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id mwekYfDXDFXYpsrC for ; Fri, 07 May 2010 04:36:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wyb36 with SMTP id 36so556176wyb.26 for ; Fri, 07 May 2010 04:36:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BE3FB32.8030709@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 13:36:18 +0200 From: Pol MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Please Help List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4134510554362249510==" Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: xfs@oss.sgi.com This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============4134510554362249510== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------090901010707050403020108" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090901010707050403020108 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Good morning. I'm writing from Barcelona and English is not my born language, so I'd like to apologize in advance for any possible mistakes in my text. I'm a Windows user who has recently moved to Linux (Ubuntu 10.04), and I have a serious problem regarding my Hard Drives' File System. I have a desktop version of Ubuntu and I'm a complete regular user. I have two physical drives in my system: 1. 36GB: EXT4 partition for /, another EXT4 for /home and a SWAP one. 2. 1TB (for data) drive. I generate so much video and music data per month (AVI, MKV, MP3, WAV) because of my job, and need to copy it to external hard drives to ensure I don't lose any of it. My question is about the FS to use in these data drives. I currently have all of them in XFS fyle system. Every file I generate is saved in my internal XFS drive, and whenever the hd is almost full I copy the important files to External Hard Drives which are also formatted as XFS. My problem comes after reading a couple of posts from 2006 in some forums on the web. They said that XFS is very unsecure when a power failure happens and recommended EXT3 (EXT4 these days I guess). They said that after a power failure it's very common to see data loss (something that never happened to me in all my years using NTFS). As far as I know XFS is much more secure than NTFS so I don't really understand this issue. I assume these people were talking about systems which need to be continously writing to the disk, but my knowledge about this is very limited. Did I chose the correct FS for my drives? Thank you very much for your time. --------------090901010707050403020108 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Good morning.
I'm writing from Barcelona and English is not my born language, so I'd like to apologize in advance for any possible mistakes in my text.

I'm a Windows user who has recently moved to Linux (Ubuntu 10.04), and I have a serious problem regarding my Hard Drives' File System.
I have a desktop version of Ubuntu and I'm a complete regular user.

I have two physical drives in my system:
1. 36GB: EXT4 partition for /, another EXT4 for /home and a SWAP one.
2. 1TB (for data) drive.

I generate so much video and music data per month (AVI, MKV, MP3, WAV) because of my job, and need to copy it to external hard drives to ensure I don't lose any of it.

My question is about the FS to use in these data drives.
I currently have all of them in XFS fyle system. Every file I generate is saved in my internal XFS drive, and whenever the hd is almost full I copy the important files to External Hard Drives which are also formatted as XFS.

My problem comes after reading a couple of posts from 2006 in some forums on the web. They said that XFS is very unsecure when a power failure happens and recommended EXT3 (EXT4 these days I guess). They said that after a power failure it's very common to see data loss (something that never happened to me in all my years using NTFS).

As far as I know XFS is much more secure than NTFS so I don't really understand this issue. I assume these people were talking about systems which need to be continously writing to the disk, but my knowledge about this is very limited.

Did I chose the correct FS for my drives?


Thank you very much for your time.
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