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Re: file systems



Chris Brennan put forth on 4/19/2011 3:30 PM:

> JFX/XFS comes with there own risks (especially in power-loss
> situations).

This information is incorrect, at least WRT XFS, please disregard.

XFS had a bug prior to 2007 that could, in rare cases, cause some
filesystem corruption upon power loss.  This issue was fixed *4 years*
ago.  WRT JFS, I've not heard of a similar issue.  Provide us a link
please for the JFS case.

Chris, if your comments relate simply to data loss, and not filesystem
*corruption*, which are completely different things, this is a result of
the buffer cache holding pages that have not yet hit the platters when
the power dies.  This issue is *not* filesystem specific.  It affects
*every* Linux filesystem.

-- 
Stan


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