XFS filesystem revisited

[Brett I. Holcomb]

I think that the Gentoo people really don't have much experience with XFS 
at all -they seem to favor ext3.  Yes, on the log - I've seen that when I 
had to do an xfs_repair and it told me that I needed to mount then umount 
to get the log data updated.  Once I did that xfs_repair fixed it.  I never 
want to see another ext2 (and maybe 3 <G>) system.

Kurt Wall wrote:

> Consuming 1.4K bytes, Collins Richey blathered:
>> FYI.
>> 
>> >From time to time we have threads about the use of various filesystems
>> >(usually
> 
> [Gentoo description of XFS shortcomings snipped]
> 
> This makes absslutely no sense. I have deliberately yanked power on a
> running system and haven't lost data. The explanation, at least the
> section quoted above, entirely disregards the transaction log, which
> is the reason that XFS is so good - it can replay or roll back the FS
> to a know state.
> 
> Kurt

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