On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 10:57 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On 5/16/06, Ken Schneider
wrote: On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 06:29 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: Perhaps they had a problem a couple of years ago. Once bitten, twice shy. I have been xfs for a few years both on a desktop and a laptop and have -not- had any problems.
Ken,
I'm curious, do you use X? I've personally don't keep home on XFS, but I've read numerous times about some of the config files being zero'd out upon unexpected shutdowns. Apparently it was very obvious to the users and they had to reset up their X (or KDE/Gnome/etc.) config.
Yes, I run KDE on both. These are both personal machines.
I really don't remember the details, but it certainly scared me away from using XFS for routine use.
Also, the response from the XFS team on the mailing list was aways, we've done what we can to shorten the window, but by design XFS does not journal data, just meta-data. Therefore with an unexpected shutdown we can't always trust the data of certain open files and for those files we reset the content to nulls.
I have never had this issue.
Seriously it was a big and common complaint on the XFS mailing list for years. I personally have not been paying attention to XFS in the 2.6 kernel. I'm waiting for XFS/LVM snapshots to work more reliably before I consider upgrading any of my fileservers.
FYI: I actually have upgraded a test fileserver and I get LVM snapshot failures simi-routinely on that server. In fact I had one over the weekend. That is one of things I want to test out 10.1 on to see if the snapshots are working better yet or not.
Before I retired I had a samba server running using xfs so get the acl's to work. This machine was server docs to a few hundred employees without any problems. Think about it, if it was such a hugh issue SUSE -would not- allow it in the distribution since SUSE is about quality (that's why I use SUSE). -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998