Hi all, When I installed md8.1 on my home system I went from reiserfs, which never gave me trouble, to using xfs which I knew from work having it on our Silicon Graphics machine. I also read a lot about it and for speed and features it seemed the best and having a high esteme for SGI I did not hesitate.
Nevertheless I've experienced about 4 times so far the following (I have an IDE system disk 'quantum fireball' of 8GB): Every time there's a power cut I find a lot of files corrupted. Instead of their original contents they contain nothing but ^@ (viewed with vim) characters. The files concerned are e.g. all the KDE config files of apps that were open at the time of the power cut, but I once had inittab & message affected too. You can imagine that KDE wouldn't start after that in the 1st case and the whole system was fucked in the 2nd. This for me is totally unacceptable and I don't dare to imagine what this would mean for a company's production machine. My technical knowledge in this field is not sufficiant enough to pinpoint what exactly is the cause: the version of xfs included in 8.1, the way f.s. are checked (or not checked) on boot-up? I don't know. I've read before that journaling file systems didn't need to be fsck'ed but why do you find a fsck for reiser & xfs then? Mar 25 All I see in the messages file is this : 22:57:40 gz kernel: Start mounting filesystem: ide0(3,6) Mar 25 22:57:40 gz kernel: XFS: WARNING: recovery required on readonly filesystem. Mar 25 22:57:40 gz kernel: XFS: write access will be enabled during mount. Mar 25 22:57:40 gz kernel: Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: ide0(3,6) (dev: 3/6) Mar 25 22:57:40 gz kernel: Ending XFS recovery on filesystem: ide0(3,6) (dev: 3/6) I'd be glad to learn more around this from active users of xfs since I sure would like to remedy this 'russion roulete' situation. See ya, Guy.
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