On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Valery Mitsyn <v...@mammoth.jinr.ru> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Paul Robert Marino <prmari...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> As for JFS its been a long time since I tested it but I had the reverse >>> issue. >>> Oh and I know the issue you ran into with xfs its rare but has been known >>> to >>> happen I've hit it once my self on a laptop its a journal problem, and >>> fsck >>> isn't the tool to use. >>> There is a specific xfs repair tool to fix the journal or can rebuild it >>> from the backup inodes >> >> >> Then are you agreed that it's too likely to occur for high reliability >> filesystems, and only more suitable for high flowthrough data whose >> provenance is not so critical? >> > > Certainly not! > Here at JINR we have more than 50 servers with about 2PB > used space serviced by XFS. All data are critical for > LHC experiments. Quite a few servers run for about a 5 years > till now. Just a few files were lost due to damn 3-ware > destroyed own DCB. > The latest incident with xfs+nfs is not the xfs problem too.
That's precisely why I ask. My xfs experience is apparently out of date, compared to your more recent experience.