Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
>>     
>>> Am Montag, 24. November 2008 22:09:52 schrieb Dale:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I wouldn't use XFS unless
>>>> it was all that was left.  I tried it once a while back and found out it
>>>> does not like power failures at all.  Each time I had a power failure, I
>>>> had to reinstall from scratch.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Hmm, I use it because of its resistance to power failures. When was it that
>>> you had such problems?
>>>
>>> Bye...
>>>
>>>       Dirk
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Its been a while but it happened several times.  I just got tired of
>> having to reinstall every time the power blinked.  Turned out the wire
>> was loose on the transformer so they blinked a lot, every couple days or
>> so.  I think it was Mandrake 9.2.
>>
>> I have had a power failure or two with reiserfs and it recovered.  It
>> did the check thing but ran fine.
>>
>> Just my experience.  Your mileage may vary.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-
>>     
>
> 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.)
>
> I suppose if you ask enough people, there will be horror stories about
> every filesystem.
>
> No matter which FS you choose, I wish you good luck and hope you have
> no new horror stories. :)
>
> Paul
>
>
>   

LOL.  I have two hard drives and copy my main drive over to the second
drive pretty regular.  One is reiserfs and the other ext3.  What are the
chances both would screw up at the same time?  ;-) 

It could have been a bad version of XFS or something but after about
three or four times, it just got old.  I put ext3 on it after that and
it would recover fine, except for the griping about not being shutdown
properly and such.  It was a in-law so no clue exactly what it said but
it booted and worked.

You are right, no matter what FS you use, there is somebody that hates
it.  I guess you just have to install, make a back-up, then pull the
plug and see if it survives or not.  If it does, you got a keeper, if
not, restore to another FS and try again.  o_O

Dale

:-)  :-)