On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 21:04, Dan Hollis wrote: > xfs is still battling corruption problems, and there is still the "nulls > in files" problem. while xfs core code may be mature the linux port is > not. i wouldn't suggest it for any production systems at the moment. > (i had big problems with xfs on several production machines) Dan, you reported a problem back in January with your xfs filesystem, haven't heard from you since. If you are still having problems, please let us know, we have not had similar reports from anyone since then. As far as I know, there are no outstanding "corruption" issues with xfs. re: the "nulls in files" problem, it's a fact of life that on a metadata journaling filesytem, if you lose power, you lose data. In the case of xfs, synchronous transactions used to mean that you sometimes wound up with files with a length, but no data if you crashed before a sync. Most of these transactions have now been made asynchronous, and you're much more likely to just get your "old" data back after a crash, since metadata is not forced out before file data. FWIW, There are many people who _would_ recommend XFS for production machines, including those listed at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/xfs_users.html Just had to step in to defend our filesystem a bit. :) If you're still having problems, please do let us know so we can address them. -Eric -- Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs sandeen@sgi.com SGI, Inc.
