Op 28-07-10 21:34, Aniruddha schreef: > Agreed, it was hardly a double-blind randomized trial :) On a more > serious note: off course these tests don't prove anything. On the > other hand I have heard so many time that XFS can't handle a single > power failure without data corruption that I wanted to see for myself > what happens if you power off a pc. with an XFS filesystem. Apparently > not much. There might other problems hidden with XFS,just like ext3 ( > when copy pasting a home directory to another location I once lost the > whole directory due data corruption on ext3). As with all research, showing that something does not fail is notoriously hard. Showing that something fails given a specified set of circumstances, on the other hand, is dead easy. Yes, you did show that a poweroff does not destroy data. By the way, were you writing data? I think there's no filesystem that *can* fail when data is only being read, sort of hard disk failure of course... Sjoerd
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