On Monday 21 July 2008, Neil Walker wrote:
> Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > Not my experience, though. Never had any problems with XFS due to power
> > failure.
>
> Nor mine. I have machines with ext3 and reiserfs here. There is also one
> with xfs. Recently, I had problems with an over-sensitive breaker
> tripping at irregular intervals. The only machine that didn't have fs
> problems as a result was the one with xfs. ;)

Just over two years ago or so, /usr/portage on xfs, battery ran out on laptop.  
The partition was borked (twice).  The remaining reiserfs partitions were 
totally unharmed on both occasions and a few more since.  It seems that YMMV.
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Regards,
Mick