[COLUG] XFS file system

[Rob Funk]

Brian Miller wrote:
> Does anyone use XFS on Linux for much?  We tend to use SuSE at work,
> and that use to default to Reiserfs. (I've seen comments that they are
> starting to move back to ext3 recently.)  But about a year ago, after
> hearing some people at Novell talk about how Reiserfs starts to show
> some serious performance hits once you get to 4 processors, we started
> moving to XFS.  We haven't had any problems with it.

I've never used XFS for the boot partition that grub looks at, but I used 
to like XFS for my other partitions.

Then I lost an XFS filesystem on an external firewire drive, and in my 
subsequent research I learned that XFS was designed with the assumption 
that the disk would never lose power unexpectedly.  This seems to me like 
a very risky assumption.

After that I started moving back to ext3 everywhere, even on my 
UPS-attached servers, though I still have one server with lots of XFS 
filesystems.  It makes me nervous.

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