Hi Lonnie
I am sorry If I was being offending, but want to present following
facts here. Please challenge me :
Evidence is
1. I have lost a big chunk of data. In the range of GBs. It was
commercially important data.
2. In my 10 years of carreer, I have never seen a Sun(UFS) or an
HPUX(JFS) or an AIX box(JFS) corrupting data like what I have seen or
what Aman has faced.
2. You will say "LATEST" code resolves most of the issues. Accepted.
But is there a version, X or Y or Z (old or latest, a user doesn't
care) which is STABLE.
What I mean by stability is, a technical person (which you all are)
can say " I am confident that IT WORKS".
3. In an envrionment which involves *real* customers and where each
second counts and data means hard dollors, no body bothers about CODES
and their versions. So please don't distribute something (even free)
in the name of
* it's latest
* It's gives better performance
* It's this , it's that
BUT
when it comes to stability, It all depends. Which as per me is the
most important factor.
It may work on our personal laptops/labs/academies but not in
commercial sector.
Mahesh
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Subject: RE: Data Corruption Problem
Author: netllama (netllama@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) at internet
Date: 7/30/2003 9:00 PM
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 mahesh.babbar@xxxxxx wrote:
> Freinds,
>
> Please recall that a week before I put up a similar problem and I was
> told that the problem could be beause of the ancient code of XFS (2
> years old) I am running on my box.
>
> Answer was that new XFS code is stable, proven and works without any
> issues and there no *VERY CRITICAL* issues like data corruption.
>
> Aman's problem's source may have been different to mine but the
> bottomlime is that "There could still be a major stability issue even
> with newer XFS codes".
>
> Steve/Lonnie : I don't want to sound un-neccessarily finiky and I
> completely trust communitiy's ability to set things right, my only
> submission is that there could still be grey areas
And the moon might be blue on alternate sundays in June. Please don't
spread FUD. If you have evidence of a problem, then present it, against
the latest released stable XFS codebase. If not, then don't raise doubt
over something that you have a hunch on without any real evidence.
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