On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:58:31PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Great, that is the usual propaganda from XFS users with the same lame > excuse written with small letters. How is it propaganda? It was a statement of fact. > It has this bad tendency to shred the > file contents after powerouts or sudden kernel crashes... silently > inserting lots of 0x0s, IIRC sometimes only a 512 byte block, sometimes > filling the rest of a file after a certain position. FYI, *any* filesystem has the potential to lose data on a sudden power outage. > I cannot prove it > either, it is just the experience which I had every time after I tried > XFS in the last years. So, in other words, you are giving anecdotal "evidence" as the backing for sweeping generalizations? > And every time I came back to ext3 where I can > not remember such trouble. > Well, as an anecdote of my own, I have used both XFS and ext3 quite extensively and found that they are equally as good, given *quality* hardware. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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