XFS

[Jerry McBride]

On Thursday 08 October 2009 16:55:52 Gary Wilson wrote:
> Is anyone using XFS? I have an 18TB NAS that I have to set up. I've
> always used ext3. But fsck for 18TB is unbearable to think about. XFS
> seems to be actively supported, but the one time I used it a couple of
> years ago was disastrous. A sudden shutdown of the system left the
> partition unrecoverable. Linux Journal this month has a
> Point/Counterpoint 'debate' on Ext3 vs. XFS but it's not conclusive. Any
> suggestions, recommendations?
> 
> Gary
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I have no XFS experience other than anecdotal... and personally I would not 
trust it. There seems to be specific circumstances that the filesystem will 
not recover itself after a hard shutdown. 

However, I do have a great deal of EXT3 and now EXT4 hands on experience. Ive 
never, ever lost a bit/byte of data with these  filesystems. And I've done 
some really, really brutal testing too... 

And yes, I was hoping for more than what I got in the LJ article. I don't even 
know why they bothered to print it....




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