XFS filesystem revisited

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Collins Richey wrote:
> FYI.
>
> >From time to time we have threads about the use of various filesystems (usually
> degrades rapidly to "my fs is better than your fs").
>
> I just happened to be reviewing the current Gentoo Handbook - a work in
> progress, and I noted the following recommendation for XFS (a favorite of many
> on this list).
>
> 4.i. Creating Filesystems
>
> ... [ other fs descriptions]
>
> "XFS is a filesystem with metadata journaling that is fully supported
> under Gentoo Linux's xfs-sources kernel. It comes with a robust feature-set and
> is optimized for scalability. We only recommend using this filesystem on Linux
> systems with high-end SCSI and/or fibre channel storage and a uninterruptible
> power supply. Because XFS aggressively caches in-transit data in RAM, improperly
> designed programs (those that don't take proper precautions when writing files
> to disk and there are quite a few of them) can lose a good deal of data if the
> system goes down unexpectedly."
>
> ... [ other fs desciptions ]
>
> It is interesting that this recommendation is only present for XFS among the
> journaled filesystem choices.

Its also interesting that the documentation that you've referenced hasn't
been well updated in over a year.

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