XFS Rocks!

[Collins Richey]

On 12/8/05, A. Khattri <ajai at bway.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
>
> > Second, I have been running XFS since Reiser *ATE* all my data,
> > *TWICE*!!!  Call it 1997 or so.  This is my first ever error.  I
> > actually had to look up what command to use to fix it.  I don't think I
> > lost anything in the process.  I love journaling file systems!
>
> XFS buffers a lot of stuff so like Reiser it may not be good for certain
> applications. But ext3 has been rock solid for me.
>

Archives revista! We've had this discussion numerous times.

My own experience was like Alma's. Reiserfs ate my data twice, so
never again in this lifetime. With XFS and EXT3 I've never lost data.
Once in 4+ years with EXT3 I had a directory go wobbly - couldn't add
new files. I copied out the data (intact), nuked the directory and
made a new one. That was in late 2.5 or early 2.6 kernel days, so who
knows if it was even an EXT3 problem.

We had a long flamefest on the topic of XFS and its buffering habits.
I haven't been keeping up with Gentoo lately, but back at the time of
the flamefest, Gentoo developers were recommending a UPS if you ran
XFS! Of course, they also seemed to be impressed with Reiser, so go
figure.

XFS has the honor of being the oldest (and some say most stable) of
the journaling fs.

I've read reams of reports, but I've never fully understood why Red
Hat dropped XFS from its enterprise releases. I'm sure one of the
loved/hated posters on the CentOS list could tell us in 100,000 words
or more. You know the type: on the eighth day after a good rest, God
created Red Hat ...

--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
      smart enough to debug it.
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