Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout

2005-07-16 Thread Al Boldi
Russell Howe wrote: { XFS only journals metadata, not data. So, you are supposed to get a consistent filesystem structure, but your data consistency isn't guaranteed. } What did XFS do to detect filedata-corruption before it was added to the vanilla-kernel? Maybe it did not update the metadata

Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout

2005-07-11 Thread Ric Wheeler
Jens Axboe wrote: On Fri, Jul 01 2005, Bryan Henderson wrote: Wouldn't a commercial class drive that ignores explicit flushes be infamous? I'm ready to accept that there are SCSI drives that cache writes in volatile storage by default (but frankly, I'm still skeptical), but I'm not read

Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout

2005-07-05 Thread Nathan Scott
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 07:24:03AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > Was ordered mode disabled/removed when XFS was add to the vanilla-kernel? No, XFS has never supported such a mode. cheers. -- Nathan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to

RE: XFS corruption during power-blackout

2005-07-05 Thread Al Boldi
Sonny Rao wrote: { > > > >On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:53:09AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > > > >>What I found were 4 things in the dest dir: > > > >>1. Missing Dirs,Files. That's OK. > > > >>2. Files of size 0. That's acceptable. > > > >>3. Corrupted Files. That's unacceptable. > > > >>4. Corrupted File

Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout

2005-07-05 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Dienstag, 5. Juli 2005 20:10 schrieb Sonny Rao: > On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 08:25:11PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > > Sonny Rao wrote: { > > > > > > >On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:53:09AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > > > > >>What I found were 4 things in the dest dir: > > > > >>1. Missing Dirs,Files. That's

Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout

2005-07-05 Thread Sonny Rao
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 08:25:11PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > Sonny Rao wrote: { > > > >On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:53:09AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > > > >>What I found were 4 things in the dest dir: > > > >>1. Missing Dirs,Files. That's OK. > > > >>2. Files of size 0. That's acceptable. > > > >>3. Cor

RE: XFS corruption during power-blackout

2005-07-05 Thread Al Boldi
Sonny Rao wrote: { > > >On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:53:09AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > > >>What I found were 4 things in the dest dir: > > >>1. Missing Dirs,Files. That's OK. > > >>2. Files of size 0. That's acceptable. > > >>3. Corrupted Files. That's unacceptable. > > >>4. Corrupted Files with origi

Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout

2005-07-05 Thread Sonny Rao
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:46:27AM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 12:30:20PM -0400, Bryan Henderson wrote: > > > For another point of reference - were these ATA (personal class) or > > SCSI (commercial class) drives or both? > > IDE were Maxtor some old Maxtor 60GB disks a

Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout

2005-07-05 Thread Sonny Rao
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 05:05:11PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: { > On Fri, Jul 01 2005, David Masover wrote: > > Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > >On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:53:09AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > > > > > > > > >>What I found were 4 things in the dest dir: > > >>1. Missing Dirs,Fi