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Re: Opinions on ext3 vs XFS vs reiserfs for LAMP server



On 08/23/07 10:03:24AM -0700, michael@estone.ca wrote:
> 
> The problem of zeroing files of XFS still exists, however its not some  
> mythical type of corruption. You'll only see it on files recently  
> written to within seconds (say approx 60 secs) of a hard power off. If  
> you can't risk it, or think you may have encounter the odd hard reset,  
> ext3 might be a better choice.
> 

Actually it's been fixed as of 2.6.22:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#nulls

Of course that doesn't help you if you're using sticking with the kernel
shipped with etch.

Jim.



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