Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
Yes, a box on XFS comes RIGHT UP after a hard
shutdown, but things are and will be missing.
Would any system save unsaved material if you pulled the plug? I'm
surprised you'd end up with a partially corrupted file. Don't these
journaling systems step back to a stable time
As someone else explained to this person. The system essentially tracks
where it is so that if it does lose power, etc. it can restore to the last
known point. However, if something has been done before the changes are
committed and they aren't journaled then the data will be lost. It's like
I know that most people on this list consider XFS to be rock-solid reliable,
but I keep reading from time to time that it is not perfect. Excerpt from a
recent posting on Gentoo.
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From C. Candell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You need to emerge xfs-sources for support XFS of
All i'm taking from this excerpt is that something is very badly broken
in the way that Gentoo impliments XFS. Unless there's some explanation
on what an 'emerge' would do that is possible on other distros?
On 02/28/03 20:42, Collins wrote:
I know that most people on this list consider XFS to
On Friday 28 February 2003 09:44 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
All i'm taking from this excerpt is that something is very badly broken
in the way that Gentoo impliments XFS. Unless there's some explanation
on what an 'emerge' would do that is possible on other distros?
The emerge has nothing to do
Net Llama! wrote:
All i'm taking from this excerpt is that something is very badly
broken in the way that Gentoo impliments XFS. Unless there's some
explanation on what an 'emerge' would do that is possible on other
distros?
Heck, I'm using XFS on Gentoo (1.4 final pre) I've had a few
