On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com>wrote:
> Volkan YAZICI put forth on 7/27/2010 8:22 AM: > > > You are missing a very important point: Durability to power failures. > > (Excuse me, but a majority of GNU/Linux users are not switched to a UPS > > or something.) And that's where XFS totally fails[1][2]. > > > [1] > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2008-11/msg00097.html > > .... > a fantastic piece of FOSS into which many top-of-their-game > kernel engineers have put tens of thousands of man hours, striving to make > it > the best it can be--and are wildly succeeding. > > That's was very informative, thanks. You got me curious and I will test XFS on my home system. To be honest I am still little wary of using XFS in a production environment. For years now I have heard stories of power failures with catastrophic results when using XFS. Anyone who using XFS in a mission critical production environment? Anyone has experience with that?
