SOLVED! Server Fubar'ed - Ideas welcomed

[Collins Richey]

On 6/11/05, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> > On 6/10/05, Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Well why didn't you *say* it was XFS!  ;)
> >>
> >
> > Really! Back in the days when I spent more time with Gentoo, I
> > remember that Gentoo developers insisted that no one should run xfs
> > without a ups. xfs appears to cache enough stuff that sudden power
> > failures can leave you in an undefined state, which sort of negates
> > what journaling is supposed to provide.
> 
> Do gentoo developers also recommend we not smoke near an open container
> of gasoline?
> 

Probably! I only brought this up because we once had a lovely
flamefest on the subject.

Some folks think xfs is the best thing since sliced bread; others have
had grief with it. Personally, I've had best results with ext3 over
the years. Now that RH has chosen not to support xfs even though it's
a standard kernel offering I have little reason to experiment with it.
CentOS does offer a non-standard kernel with full file system support,
and that's what I'm running, but I'll just stick with ext3.


-- 
 Collins
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