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 o7JDsefg174604 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:54:41 -0500 Received: from greer.hardwarefreak.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 448BF1E4C8A9 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:55:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from greer.hardwarefreak.com (mo-65-41-216-221.sta.embarqhsd.net [65.41.216.221]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id F9A181LZgELZPL8L for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:55:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.100.53] (gffx.hardwarefreak.com [192.168.100.53]) by greer.hardwarefreak.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71CDA6C2D0 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:55:10 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4C6D37BD.3060900@hardwarefreak.com> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:55:09 -0500 From: Stan Hoeppner MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: LWN.net article: creating 1 billion files -> XFS looses References: <201008191312.49346@zmi.at> <20100819120512.GB9358@infradead.org> <201008191445.22568@zmi.at> In-Reply-To: <201008191445.22568@zmi.at> 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: xfs@oss.sgi.com Michael Monnerie put forth on 8/19/2010 7:45 AM: > Just this week I had a friend in a FS > discussion saying "ins't XFS destroying/zeroing files on power > failure?". That information is ancient, but things like that stay in > peoples brain for(almost)ever. Had a similar lengthy discussion over on debian-users not more than a month or so ago. Same thing there. Of the 10 or so people active in the thread, I'd say 8 of them were anti-XFS because of the "corruption due to power failure" issue that they'd "read about" years before. Not a single one of them had ever used XFS. A couple of them considered it a "hobbyist quality" filesystem that might be ready for production use in a few years. Ahh the ignorance abounds in our world... I did my best to educate them, sending them to the Wikipedia page on XFS and to the xfs.org site and specifically the relevant sections of the FAQ. Unfortunately there are some people who simply refuse to be educated. But those type of people aren't candidates for XFS anyway, thankfully. ;) -- Stan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs