On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Perry E. Metzger <pe...@piermont.com> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:46:29 +0200 Aniruddha > <mailingdotl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have done some testing with Debian stable in Virtualbox and I have >> to say XFS works as advertised. I did power off the virtual machine >> several times when working in Gnome / copying files. And I did power >> off the virtual 5 times in a row when booting. Nothing happened. >> Each time the virtual machine booted without problems. >> >> I have to say, file system creating and file system checking is >> lightning fast. I am very impressed. Next I'll test XFS on my >> laptop. > > Although I have no reason to believe that XFS is flawed, your test is > not proof of that.
Agreed, it was hardly a double-blind randomized trial :) On a more serious note: off course these tests don't prove anything. On the other hand I have heard so many time that XFS can't handle a single power failure without data corruption that I wanted to see for myself what happens if you power off a pc. with an XFS filesystem. Apparently not much. There might other problems hidden with XFS,just like ext3 ( when copy pasting a home directory to another location I once lost the whole directory due data corruption on ext3). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikgp3px0huxn4ntbwwtxtsgemnmfdemkcm=0...@mail.gmail.com
