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[Kurt Wall]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:01:01PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 
> >
> > XFS. I don't think Reiser's arrest will necessarily affect ReiserFS, but
> > I would opt for XFS for reasons of technical superiority and speed.
> >
> Any reliability problems, like the ones mentioned by Michael?

Not here. At the end of the day, if you're cranking on a file system
and the power goes away, there will be transactions in core that never
make it to the on-disk journal. I'm not aware of _any_ file system that
guarantees data integrity in such a situation. Rather, it will just roll 
back to the last known good state. What good journaling does is minimize
the amount of data loss and offer fast recovery when it does happen.
Nevertheless, I've _never_ lost data on XFS, including when I
deliberately yanked the powe during a kernel compile to see what would
happen.

Kurt
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