On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 05:49:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/12/07 17:15, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > [snip] > > > > At work we deal with files of size 1 GB to 100 GB on a regular > > basis. I would classify those as large. XFS supports files up > > to a size of 8 exabytes and filesystems also of size 8 exabytes. > > I am not sure of the limitations on JFS. > > I've read that XFS is very fragile during system crashes and easily > loses the contents of files. > It can. In flushing the buffers, it can start writing crap out to disk. This is because in the event of a power loss/fluctuation the SDRAM is the first thing to go usually. There was a very interesting post about it on the SGI XFS list from a few years back, but I can't seem to locate it at the moment. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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