XFS data loss, and a fix

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On 3/6/08, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
>
> 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


Another data point.  I had a drive fail in January that had 4 XFS partitions
on
it, including the root partition.  This is pretty much like a power
failure.  It cost
and arm and half a leg, but all the data were recovered.  I'm now seriously
interested in mirroring.




-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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