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Re: XFS feature request

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Subject: Re: XFS feature request
From: Andrew Mathews <andrew_mathews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 14:02:15 -0600
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Michael Loftis wrote:
| This has also recently been a problem for us.  The whole 'something
| looks a little odd so I'm going to just tank and take the whole system
| with me' knee-jerk reaction XFS has is very problematic.  It's the
| biggest reason I'm moving operations away from it.
|
| --On Wednesday, June 04, 2003 20:26 +0200 Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>
| wrote:
|
|> Hello,
|>
|> Upon a filesystem error the XFS filesystem normally unmounts the fs and
|> often takes the box along with it.
|> ...
|
| --
| Michael Loftis
| Modwest Sr. Systems Administrator
| Powerful, Affordable Web Hosting
|

Not to diminish Set's original request, but to address this comment...

I guess your term "knee-jerk reaction" is subjective. I'd much rather
have a recoverable system than an unrecoverable one, which is exactly
what you'll have if the filesystem is put into an unstable state
(corruption) and isn't intelligent enough to protect itself from further
damage. It's also one of the reasons we won't use anything other than
XFS in a production environment.

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