Re: Questions about XFS

Geir A. Myrestrand
2007-03-15T14:59:08Z

clflush wrote:
> On the one hand you have the old Ext3 FS which doesn't perform very well in
> many areas but IMO is a lot safer to work on (doesn't loose data that easily
> compared to XFS - and I'm talking from experience here because I use both
> file systems and I lost much more on the XFS system than on the Ext3 one) and
> on the other hand you have this excellent XFS file system with its clean
> layout and awesome performance + fancy features like GRIO, extents, allocate
> on flush, real time volumes, etc *but* is not "safe" enough to work with if
> you have unreliable hardware and/or a lot of power outage issues - I've
> never lost data on Ext3 during a power outage but already lost 2 times data
> on XFS

You *always* use a UPS when you use XFS.
XFS does not prevent power outages [yet]...

> Just my $0.02

Save them for a UPS. ;-)

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Geir A. Myrestrand