Ian Forde wrote:
On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Florin Andrei florin@andrei.myip.org wrote:
John R Pierce wrote:
I've always avoided XFS because A) it wsan't supported natively in RHEL anyways, and B) I've heard far too many stories about catastrophic loss problems and day long FSCK sessions after power failures [1] or what have you
I've both heard about and experienced first-hand data loss (pretty severe actually, some incidents pretty recent) with XFS after power failure. It used to be great for performance (not so great now that Ext4 is on the rise), but reliability was never its strong point. The bias on this list is surprising and unjustified.
Given that I stated my experience with XFS, and my rationale for using it in *my* production environment, I take exception to your calling said experience unjustified.
The thing is that none of you ever stated how XFS was used. With hardware raid or software raid or lvm or memory disk...
Anyway, data loss issues today should come down to not setting up properly. Like disabling barriers on disks that have their write cache enabled.