From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G30lo-00032Q-UY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:22:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6J1KgVD026296; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:20:42 GMT Received: from mail.develix.com (mail.develix.com [198.145.247.211]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6J1DvfO013610 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:13:58 GMT Received: from devilbox (c-24-21-187-24.hsd1.or.comcast.net [24.21.187.24]) (using SSLv3 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.develix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0368420329D7 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:13:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation: which file system? From: Cliff Wells To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <44BD7DCA.2060903@gentoo.org> References: <7573e9640607181501o49546aa8ref4e2dd2ee0ec12@mail.gmail.com> <7573e9640607181638w51ae2178p66721bf54e17de28@mail.gmail.com> <44BD7C15.8030600@vista-express.com> <44BD7DCA.2060903@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: develix.com Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:13:56 -0700 Message-Id: <1153271636.3839.80.camel@devilbox> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 (2.4.2.1-1.1.fc4.nr) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 012db912-e706-480c-850d-6f2d6e33e2f5 X-Archives-Hash: 339128f59d1c1ec02a1c13855551c7fa On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 17:33 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I did a install of Mandriva recently and found out this bit of info. If > > you have frequent power failures and no UPS, do NOT use XFS. It was a > > nightmare to get back up because of things not getting started again and > > I just reinstalled Mandriva with reiserfs. It worked very well with > > Reiserfs but XFS was not something I want to try on that machine again > > for sure. > > Yes, it's well known that XFS sucks with unexpected power loss, Reiser > and JFS less so. ext3 remains the most reliable filesystem. I'd be curious who this is well-know to. The only XFS filesystem I've ever lost (having used XFS exclusively since SGI started offering it on RH 7.?) was due to bad RAM. There *have* been a couple of issues that I'm aware of, but I'd hardly call it "sucking". Regards, Cliff -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list