[CentOS] Calling All FS Fanatics
Kirk Bocek
t004 at kbocek.com
Tue Oct 3 21:09:34 UTC 2006
Nathan Grennan wrote:
> XFS, fast, but can fail under load, does XORs of data, so a bad write,
> as in power failure, can mean garbage in a file. It is meta-data only
> journaling. Also slow on deletes.
You and several others point to a greater chance for data corruption.
However, this host will be on a UPS. The system will be safely shut down
before the power goes off. Isn't that enough protection?
Kirk Bocek
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