xfsprogs

[Kurt Wall]

In a 1.7K blaze of typing glory, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Thursday 12 August 2004 10:53 am, Kurt Wall wrote:
> >
> > Significantly superior. In the two years I've been running XFS, I've lost
> > exactly *no* data.
> 
> I would like to say the same, Kurt, and I also have been running XFS for about 
> two years.   But recently, in a T-storm, the power took about a 3 sec hit and 
> my wife's machine went down.  The next day, she couldn't open Kmail and 
> mozilla was all screwed up.  It had all of my bookmarks and none of hers and 
> other things were weird.  (and I don't use her machine but I do have a login 
> on it)
> 
> Not to say this couldn't happen with any FS but it *can* happen to XFS.  I 
> guess XFS does a lot of memory caching of data and if you catch it at just 
> the wrong time, it could well cause problems...

I certaily an happen to XFS as it can to *FS in general. No doubt about it.

Kurt
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