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 1G30uK-0000Bx-9G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:31:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6J1T0wn010068; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:29:00 GMT Received: from mxo1.broadbandsupport.net (mxo1.broadbandsupport.net [209.55.3.81]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6J1M3R5012312 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:22:03 GMT Received: from [192.168.100.3] (host-207-68-225-84.vista-express.com [207.68.225.84]) by mxo1.broadbandsupport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C44A2314253 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:21:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44BD892B.8090709@vista-express.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:21:47 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060712 SeaMonkey/1.0.2 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation: which file system? References: <7573e9640607181501o49546aa8ref4e2dd2ee0ec12@mail.gmail.com> <7573e9640607181638w51ae2178p66721bf54e17de28@mail.gmail.com> <44BD7C15.8030600@vista-express.com> <44BD7DCA.2060903@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <44BD7DCA.2060903@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner-From: teendale@vista-express.com X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 565c9544-ba00-457d-a02f-e68be68cbdf4 X-Archives-Hash: 54b3ae4ccd55765faf8df1ec73bb5500 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. > > Thanks, > Donnie > > It was fast though. It seemed to do well on that but no power failures is a must to be sure. At least now I know it was not just picking on me. Things usually do that. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list