On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:33:27 +0800 Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I too use XFS for my Home Directory. I think I've suffered 1 instance of > curruption in the entire 2 years I've had this laptop. (Touch Wood) > Perhaps I should mention one of the main reasons I use XFS - the tools. Performance is not a reason. Reliability is a reason. And the tools. xfs_check and xfs_repair are about the best I've seen. No, if your LVM superblock is trashed, they won't fix it. They fix the filesystem, not the disk/partition structure. And xfs_dump/xfs_restore make cloning a partition very easy. Given all the discussion in this list alone about cloning drives, I'm really surprised more people don't adopt XFS just for this issue alone. Disclaimer - yes I work for SGI. No I don't develop, I break software. And I pull plugs on running systems. So any advice I give here on anything related to SGI products should be treated with caution. No, I don't speak for SGI. And yes I really do use XFS on almost all my systems - Trying ext3 on a Kurobox (200 MHz PPC runnng Gentoo) and RiserFS on one of the desktop x86 systems. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
