Hey Stan, On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 05:46:21AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > In a recent linux-raid list thread here: > http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=137072140106867&w=2 > > seriously flawed arguments against the reliability of XFS, and even the > performance of XFS, are made. The OP even quotes Dave's LCA > presentation as a performance reason to avoid XFS. The party really > gets started at paragraph 7. > > I made a brief effort to debunk his claims and explained that he can't > have O_PONIES, that he should use fsync or O_DIRECT, etc for data > safety. To non experts/advanced filesystem users, his long winded > argument may be persuasive. Obviously none of you experts has time to > debunk every such post, but this one may be worth a read at least, > especially given the weight Google gives to vger lists. I gave it a quick read, but since I'm not on linux-raid I don't have a good way to reply to Steve. Could you bounce that message over? I'd be happy to try to address a point or two... Thanks, Ben _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
