[CentOS] XFS and CentOS 4.3

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Wed Aug 16 20:21:43 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 15:12 -0500, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Rading this thread about xfs vs ext3, and how ext3 is safer...
> 
> I just got ("just" as in "today") an error on one of my ext3 file  
> systems.  Reason?  Userspace application allocated a larger chunk of  
> memory, kernel generated OOM (while there was about 1 gig of swap  
> still free), and an completely unrelated ext3 file system (app in  
> question wasn't doing anything on it) got an error, automatically was  
> remoutned read-only, and marked as in need of fsck.
> 
> I've unmounted it, run fsck on it (it found some errors and fixed  
> them), and now each time I try to mount that file system kernel  
> reports the file system is marked as having error from previous mount  
> and that it is in need of fsck.
> 
> <flame mode="on">
> Now, I wouldn't call this kind of thing "stable" operating system or  
> "stable" file system.  If application asks for too much memory it  
> should get killed (btw, system had 1 gig of RAM and application asked  
> for like 600 meg, plus there was plenty of swap space free too -- so I  
> wouldn't call this a case of app asking too much).  You definetely  
> don't end up with corrupted file system.
> </flame>

shit breaks ... it's life :)
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