On Tuesday 16 May 2006 10:08 am, Ken Schneider wrote:
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've switched to JFS or XFS exclusively since about 9.0. Too many problems with ReiserFS and inconsistencies/rebuilds with lockups, power outages, etc.
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.
Me neither. JFS and XFS have been rock solid for me on servers, desktops and laptops.
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.
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).
SUSE's endorsement and continued support has me on XFS now since SUSE dropped boot/install support for JFS. From the issues that Greg mentions with "a file system" I had to double check that he meant XFS not Reiser.
Ken
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