On Thursday 27 May 2004 12:32, Rikard Johnels wrote: > Found the following info on XFS: > > XFS is a filesystem with metadata journaling that is fully supported under > Gentoo Linux's xfs-sources kernel. It comes with a robust feature-set and > is optimized for scalability. We only recommend using this filesystem on > Linux systems with high-end SCSI and/or fibre channel storage and a > uninterruptible power supply. Because XFS aggressively caches in-transit > data in RAM, improperly designed programs (those that don't take proper > precautions when writing files to disk and there are quite a few of them) > can lose a good deal of data if the system goes down unexpectedly. Oh dear! Thanks for digging up this information. I will stay away from XFS in my future setups. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@xxxxxx> Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User www.mrunix.de - Unix/Linux programming forum www.qtforum.org - Qt programming forum
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