24 Sep
2008
24 Sep
'08
3:38 a.m.
I don't know about XFS-on-Linux, but I've used XFS on IRIX for ten years now and I've probably had a hundred unclean shutdowns. I've only once had data corruption, and that was recently when there was some kind of dirty power event that threw five disks and two controllers in my array.
Even then a simple xfs-repair fixed that problem. While my example is certainly anecdotal, folks may want to consider my assertion that XFS is certainly not fragile, at least not on IRIX.
Jeffrey.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Justin Dugger [email protected] wrote:
Is this a recent change? Because for a very long time, the XFS FAQ basically said "if it hurts, don't do it" when it comes to unclean shutdowns. I've never heard XFS described as copy on write.
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