XFS data loss, and a fix

[Michael Hipp]

Thought this might be of interest here...

There has been a thread of some length over on the Ubuntu Server list 
about XFS vs. ext3 and possible data loss under XFS (especially in the 
case of power failure or other abrupt crash).

Anyway, it turns out this was a real issue and there was a fix made to 
XFS about 10 months ago:
    http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#nulls

They're now saying you're now no more likely to experience data loss 
under XFS than ext3. That's good news. (It was also good news to find 
out I wasn't the only one that suffered this and subsequently abandoned 
XFS.)

Looks like XFS might once again be a good choice for those of us with a 
less than enterprise grade "data center".

Michael