From: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: attack upon XFS, misinformation abounds, linux-raid list
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 08:13:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51B47150.6000500@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51B45CFD.20500@hardwarefreak.com>
On 06/09/2013 06:46 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> In a recent linux-raid list thread here:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=137072140106867&w=2
>
> seriously flawed arguments against the reliability of XFS, and even the
> performance of XFS, are made. The OP even quotes Dave's LCA
> presentation as a performance reason to avoid XFS. The party really
> gets started at paragraph 7.
>
> I made a brief effort to debunk his claims and explained that he can't
> have O_PONIES, that he should use fsync or O_DIRECT, etc for data
> safety. To non experts/advanced filesystem users, his long winded
> argument may be persuasive. Obviously none of you experts has time to
> debunk every such post, but this one may be worth a read at least,
> especially given the weight Google gives to vger lists.
Thanks for pointing that out - I responded as well.
Funny that he decided to use ext4 after basing it on a google search for "xfs
zero" and did not bother to the same query with "ext4 zero length files" :)
Ric
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-09 10:46 attack upon XFS, misinformation abounds, linux-raid list Stan Hoeppner
2013-06-09 12:13 ` Ric Wheeler [this message]
2013-06-10 9:43 ` Stefan Ring
2013-06-10 13:44 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-06-10 20:02 ` Ben Myers
2013-06-11 7:12 ` Steve Bergman
2013-06-12 1:12 ` Stan Hoeppner
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