Christoph Anton Mitterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hemlock wrote: >> Hello, >> Seeking some advice on which filesystem to use. >> I've been primarlity an ext3 user, because thats all I've really >> ever known of, but would consider trying something else. >> Plus, never used anything other than 32bit Debian since slink. >> >> I've read some articles googling for xfs, ext3 and jfs and such. >> Leaning towards xfs maybe? >> >> This will be for a AMD64 sarge box used as a file, web, email and proxy >> server. Also running software raid. >> >> Thanks for your advice. >> > Hmm I've used xfs very long but stopped using it because it seems to be > very sensitive to system crashes,.. files which are currently open my be > in a state of only binary zeros after reboot > (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#nulls)... apart from that
Yes. I mentioned that earlier. xfs does not use an odered mode when writing. That means that meta data and actual data can be writen in any order and on a crash you can loose the data blocks while the meta data already says those blocks belong to the file. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]