Am Freitag 12 November 2010 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > Michael Monnerie put forth on 11/12/2010 7:22 AM: > > I find the robustness of XFS amazing: You overwrote 1/5th of the disk > > with zeroes, and it still works :-) > > This isn't "robustness" Michael. If anything it's a serious problem. > XFS is reporting that hundreds or thousands of files that have been > physically removed still exist. Regardless of how he arrived at this > position, how is this "robust"? Most people would consider this > inconsistency of state a "corruption" situation, not "robustness". I think its necessary to differentiate here: 1) It appears to be robustness - or pure luck - regarding metadata consistency of the filesystem. I tend to believe its pure luck and that XFS just stored the metadata on the other RAID arrays. 2) XFS does not seem to have a way to detect whether file contents are still valid and consistent. It shares that with I think every other Linux filesystem instead BTRFS which uses checksumming for files. (Maybe NILFS as well, I don't know, and the FUSE or the other ZFS port). Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
