On Thursday 07 June 2007 13:29, James Knott wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Thursday 2007-06-07 at 10:12 +0200, Morten Bjørnsvik wrote: > > > Maybe that was a fact years ago with immature releases pre 2.4.19 > > > > versions. > > > > > That is _NOT_ true now. XFS is probably the most stressed filesystem > > > on the planet. Most Hollywood studio backbones and linux > > > > workstations runs xfs. > > > > > It's only drawback is delete which is slow by design, because it has to > > > traverse the inodes to figure out which blocks to delete and not a > > > > direct hashed > > > > > pointer-table. > > > > Slow? It is the faster deleting large files, almost instantaneous. So > > much > > so that it is recomended for use with mythtv for that very reason. > > > > > I've used the xfs_repair, xfsdump, xfsrestore and xfs_db tools > > > > extensively. > > > > > I've had lots of bad blocks, zeroed inodes and other disk failures. > > > > I've almost > > > > > everytime managed to restore most of the data on the disk. > > > > I have an unrepairable xfs partition that crashes xfs_repair every time, > > with a bug report. > > FWIW, I recently tried installing Ubuntu and thought I'd try XFS for a > change. I got a warning message that GRUB has problems with XFS, so I > went with JFS on the boot partition instead and XFS on /home. > > -- > Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org>
Never had any problems with XFS. As people have stated; it cashes alot, so if you are unlucky and get at power out at the wrong moment, the filesystem MAY corrupt. But so far i have been lucky i guess. Even with power outs i havent had any trashed drives (yet) XFS is fast, reliable and scales well, or so i have read. And besides; SGI wouldnt use it if it werent stable... -- /Rikard ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web : http://www.rikjoh.com mob: : +46 (0)763 19 76 25 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >
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