On 3/6/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Hipp</b> <<a href="mailto:Michael@hipp.com">Michael@hipp.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thought this might be of interest here...<br> <br> There has been a thread of some length over on the Ubuntu Server list<br> about XFS vs. ext3 and possible data loss under XFS (especially in the<br> case of power failure or other abrupt crash).<br>
<br> Anyway, it turns out this was a real issue and there was a fix made to<br> XFS about 10 months ago:<br> <a href="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#nulls">http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#nulls</a><br>
<br> They're now saying you're now no more likely to experience data loss<br> under XFS than ext3. That's good news. (It was also good news to find<br> out I wasn't the only one that suffered this and subsequently abandoned<br>
XFS.)<br> <br> Looks like XFS might once again be a good choice for those of us with a<br> less than enterprise grade "data center".<br> <br> Michael</blockquote><div><br>Another data point. I had a drive fail in January that had 4 XFS partitions on<br>
it, including the root partition. This is pretty much like a power failure. It cost<br>and arm and half a leg, but all the data were recovered. I'm now seriously<br>interested in mirroring.<br></div><br></div><br><br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Kevin O'Gorman, PhD<br>