Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Thu, 08 Jun 2006, Greg Folkert wrote:
>                 making it indexable and very fast to access). But GRUB
>                 has a huge problem with xfs. During the placement of the
>                 grub support files on the filesystem, it calls the
>                 "xfs_freeze" function and potentially can cause a hard

XFS will not flush itself to disk entirely on sync() as far as I know (see
#317479).  You need to fsync() everything you touch, and you need to be able
#to *read* and *replay* xfs
logs to boot if xfs is not shutdown safely before it flushes itself.

Avoid xfs on /boot and /, it is easier on your heart...  and *never*
hibernate XFS if you are going to need the data in that partition *before*
fully waking up... (and you always need / and /boot if you
suspend-to-disk...)

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh