[COLUG] XFS file system

[Peter King]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:33:47PM -0400, Larry W Howell wrote:

> Brian Miller wrote:
>> Does anyone use XFS on Linux for much?  We tend to use SuSE at work, and 
[snip]
> I've used XFS on several Gentoo and Linux from Scratch systems for /usr, 
> /var, /tmp, /opt, and /home and never had any problems.  (The /boot was 

I've used XFS on / and on /usr, on two different computers with different
architectures, and had trouble with each. In one case XFS failed spectacularly,
taking down everything, not writing the journal, reducing me to the level of
recovering the inodes *by number* to salvage what I could. At that time (about
a year and a half ago) there were any number of similar stories available via
Google. In the other case, XFS simply failed, both in the writes and in the
journal writes, so that I lost a rather important file I was working on with
no ready recovery. (I eventually got most of it back with some low-level
tools.) That time it was only one file affected, and it may have been some
sort of physical problem or bad sector.

After the spectacular crash, I gave up XFS. I use ext2/3 only, now, for 
/boot and / respectively. No problems at all. The minuscule gain (if there
is any) in performance isn't worth the risk.

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