From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L54VA-0008Lq-Pl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:27:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48F21E04A9; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:27:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f20.google.com (mail-qy0-f20.google.com [209.85.221.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1886CE04A9 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:27:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk13 with SMTP id 13so370750qyk.10 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:27:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-disposition :message-id:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=lWM9jYyJ+kHlMeH2MlVikRii2oZa+8DopBPdKr8mfKU=; b=Px7azboffixtk+Vu9nwZECtZadQ4hnYWZ8SEARy6bdupU4qzolM4v9y9JuNzhvQVkf jyaIo4NJLpYpI2IJK8dqk5hDoZwDKyteRBttoX1GyJkrXMnDov75YAJv0cSVQF73ZXq4 gG8VIBvrBDbKnCHIDiR8mW4P9qy83gXNgghH8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-disposition:message-id:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=GGrQoRm2cpU/D8dkvRuUvxPzTuQkTKGZPjcW1oSKE5dRCdW+X178jWgUMu7swSHJ9O sHQvemVJHCGDzScK+QrlcR3TCv9/N6wGuLBAP75UlxyUwkkWE3Qlo94K0CD6NKqrUhsQ 1gPHX9et8zwb0YTMizbAaqq8ClCme2Z7tByOg= Received: by 10.214.9.8 with SMTP id 8mr4323022qai.3.1227644833897; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:27:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.0.6? (dsl-243-253-47.telkomadsl.co.za [41.243.253.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm6529441yxd.2.2008.11.25.12.27.11 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:27:12 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:27:00 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <1227479490.26615.47.camel@rattus> <492BB6F9.5040708@gmail.com> <58965d8a0811250957k7c4ef8adu7abfc9da08b8800d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0811250957k7c4ef8adu7abfc9da08b8800d@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811252227.00314.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0324bcd5-1354-4e03-8289-d2d519eaa1d1 X-Archives-Hash: 16ec908fcd635de943312357569aa9a5 On Tuesday 25 November 2008 19:57:19 Paul Hartman wrote: > I have a similar story, but for me it was JFS instead of XFS. I will > never, ever, ever use JFS for anything again. I had XFS on a file > server RAID box with a failing power supply and it died over and over > and the FS stayed functional, so YMMV indeed. (I haven't tried reiser, > I'm still scared about the corruption stories from years ago.) Sounds like you used JFS in a case it was not designed for. XFS for instance can be best described as "a filesystem that does aggressive caching, so if you install it you need to guarantee that it will never lose power, i.e. use a UPS". It's OK for SGI to have done this, considering the kind of rendering clusters they were running it on. Use it outside that viewpoint and hey, JMMV. JFS will have it's own specific "best use" scenario The reiser stories are just that, horror stories from years ago. Then it was beta software, it is not beta any more. I've used it for over 4 years now on every machine I have and suffered no data loss that was not directly because of me being stupid. I don't think I can blame Hans if I run fsck with the wrong options at the wrong time :-) > I suppose if you ask enough people, there will be horror stories about > every filesystem. yes, very much so. Much more so than for any other kind of driver by my experience. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com