-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/07 12:59, Mike McCarty wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > [snip] > >> FYI, *any* filesystem has the potential to lose data on a sudden power >> outage. > > Umm, no. I suppose you haven't worked in telecomm. I've supported > file systems which never, ever, lost anything. If the system call > came back, and said it was on disc, then it was. If power failed, > then any writes in progress might not get committed, but no data > scrambling could take place, even if the hardware scribbled on > the disc. > >>> I cannot prove it >>> either, it is just the experience which I had every time after I tried >>> XFS in the last years. >> >> >> So, in other words, you are giving anecdotal "evidence" as the backing >> for sweeping generalizations? > > What are you doing, making sweeping claims about every file system > in the world, when you cannot possibly know everything about > every file system? > >>> And every time I came back to ext3 where I can >>> not remember such trouble. >>> >> >> Well, as an anecdote of my own, I have used both XFS and ext3 quite >> extensively and found that they are equally as good, given *quality* >> hardware. > > A good FS should not suffer corruption regardless of what the > hardware does, if we're talking *quality*, that is.
ODS-2 (the OpenVMS file system) is like that. But you pay $15000 per CPU per year support, and it's a hell of a lot slower than ext3, XFS, JFS, ReiserFS. OpenVMS used to be more popular with geeks than Unix was. But businesses and Universities decided that it was worth it to trade 2 slow-but-reliable VAXen for 10 fast-but-flaky Suns. > > Mike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF9vZrS9HxQb37XmcRAqiwAKDIRH1xPDTVSTrBPRn3zwyxm0fIOgCePqBK EWcm2JcBnOkdSNeToGtsDNU= =lFKq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
