Re: XFS and Power Failures [Was: Linux filesystems]

2010-10-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Volkan YAZICI put forth on 10/21/2010 5:04 AM: > On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Volkan YAZICI writes: >> On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Stan Hoeppner writes: >>> What write operations were you performing at the time you pulled the plug? >>> Unless you were writing the superblock it'd be almost impossible to hose the

Re: XFS and Power Failures [Was: Linux filesystems]

2010-10-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4cc060b6.9060...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: >On 10/21/2010 10:27 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >[snip] > >> BTW, a kill -9 ... the application is allowed to do it's own cleanup; > >Are you sure? SIGKILL is the unignorable "die *now*". Sorry, there is a missing "not" there. My point was

Re: XFS and Power Failures [Was: Linux filesystems]

2010-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/21/2010 10:27 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [snip] BTW, a kill -9 ... the application is allowed to do it's own cleanup; Are you sure? SIGKILL is the unignorable "die *now*". Or are you confusing it with "kill -TERM", which *does* allow cleanup? -- Seek truth from facts. -- To U

Re: XFS and Power Failures [Was: Linux filesystems]

2010-10-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <87fwvzuaec@alamut.ozu.edu.tr>, Volkan YAZICI wrote: >On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Volkan YAZICI writes: >> On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Stan Hoeppner writes: >>> What write operations were you performing at the time you pulled the >>> plug? Unless you were writing the superblock it'd be almost impossible

Re: XFS and Power Failures [Was: Linux filesystems]

2010-10-21 Thread godo
On 10/21/2010 12:04 PM, Volkan YAZICI wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Volkan YAZICI writes: On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Stan Hoeppner writes: What write operations were you performing at the time you pulled the plug? Unless you were writing the superblock it'd be almost impossible to hose the filesystem

XFS and Power Failures [Was: Linux filesystems]

2010-10-21 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Volkan YAZICI writes: > On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Stan Hoeppner writes: >> What write operations were you performing at the time you pulled the plug? >> Unless you were writing the superblock it'd be almost impossible to hose the >> filesystem to the point it couldn't mount. Were