Op vr 07-01-2005, om 17:33 schreef Eric Jorgensen: > Where? I can't find it. Several pages on gentoo.org actually point to > it's default support of xfs as one of the reasons it's better than > redhat. Not that i have any interest in running gentoo.
When you read the manual the "preparing the disks" section: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4 chapter "4.d. Creating Filesystems" quote: XFS is a filesystem with metadata journaling which comes with a robust feature-set and is optimized for scalability. We only recommend using this filesystem on Linux systems with high-end SCSI and/or fibre channel storage and an uninterruptible power supply. Because XFS aggressively caches in-transit data in RAM, improperly designed programs (those that don't take proper precautions when writing files to disk and there are quite a few of them) can lose a good deal of data if the system goes down unexpectedly. > My XFS system has had unexpected lockups (caused by intermittently > flaky hardware) and power failures about a half a dozen times now, and I've > experienced no data corruption. I have it on all my machines, and had data corruption at every power fail at every machine. Some minor some not minor and unrecoverable. Hardware seem to have something to do with it, on my server the OS is on scsi and that's the only drive that (as far as I now) didn't had data loss. I have 2 24/7 machines (one is the freevo/ftp machine) with 2.4 kernel and a workstation with 2.6, the last one seem to have less irrecoverable errors. (meaning xfs_repair does the trick) Don't use it on a critical machine! -- Groetjes Japie http://www.japie.deserver.nl 2.6.9 GNU/Linux Downgrade your system for only 89 dollars! Install Windows! ;^) ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
