Re: What is XFS/filesystem corruption and whose fault is it?

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On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 5:56 AM, Alexandre DERUMIER <aderumier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think writeback should not be a problem if barrier is enabled.
>
> you can loose last x seconds of writes, but fs should not break.

That might work for XFS but it won't work for the wider Ceph cluster —
it's against the RADOS guarantees and expectations for an OSD to go
back in time after committing an update and *can* result in failure.
-Greg

>
>
> Also for ssd drives, you need supercapacitor (generally present in all enterprise ssd),
> to not loose datas in ssd memory buffer
>
> ----- Mail original -----
> De: "Nathan Cutler" <ncutler@xxxxxxx>
> À: "ceph-devel" <ceph-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Envoyé: Vendredi 25 Novembre 2016 17:26:07
> Objet: What is XFS/filesystem corruption and whose fault is it?
>
> I've been doing some research on OSDs not starting after power outages,
> when supposedly "uncorruptible" XFS filesystems are corrupted and need
> repair. This led me to write the following brief blog post:
>
> http://smithfarm-thebrain.blogspot.cz/2016/11/what-is-xfsfilesystem-corruption-and.html
>
> Any comments and/or suggestions for improvement would be most welcome.
>
> Thanks for reading!
>
> Nathan
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