On Wed, 2008-03-05 17:04, David Kempe wrote... > XFS is good, we use it on dapper all the time. My largest XFS filesystem > is 5.5TB formatted.
While I don't have such huge filesystems, I've been using XFS for ~6 years now, without any problems at all. > btw, one thing I found was that xfs_repair can chew massive amounts of > ram to run a repair on a filesystem. I had a 2TB fs take nearly 8gb of > ram (and swap) to repair it. It did a good job of repairing, and took > ages. They're actually working on fixing that. See this interesting talk: http://linux.conf.au/programme/detail?TalkID=135 Slides: http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/slides/135-fixing_xfs_faster.pdf Video: http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Wed/mel8-135.ogg > Importantly, you can have data-loss on XFS if you lose power suddenly, > perhaps more so than ext3. When files get corrupted on XFS, I have > noticed they go to zero size I believe I read somewhere that that has been fixed some time ago. Oliver -- "Sometimes an impulsive 2:00 AM cross-country trip is the only solution." - http://xkcd.com/352/ NP: Dream Theater - Octavarium -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
