On 5/15/06, Bryan S. Tyson
On Monday 15 May 2006 07:31 pm, Greg Freemyer wrote:
XFS does NOT do well with unexpected shutdowns. In particular it can fill files that are open at shutdown with nulls. I personally would not use XFS unless I had dual power-supplies connected to dual UPSs. And yes, I do use XFS much of the time, but I have the above redundant power and I only use it for real data filesystems, not /, /usr, /var, etc.
If XFS needs dual power supplies and dual UPSs, what huge advantage does it have that makes it worth putting up with this?
Bryan
I believe it was designed for high-speed video feeds. So if you have an application that needs lots of high-speed streaming data, XFS is a great solution. Also, most data centers setups have dual PS/dual UPS, so it is not big problem for Enterprise Server users. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century