On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Florin Andrei <florin at 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. > FWIW, I was at SGI when XFS for Linux was released, and I probably was > among its first users. It was great back then, but now it's over- > rated. > > -- > Florin Andrei > > http://florin.myip.org > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos