Please do us all a favor, and learn how to use your mail client. This is
the 4th copy of this that i've received from you Mahesh, all without any
new content from you. Your actions thus far on this list indicate PEBCAK.
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 mahesh.babbar@xxxxxx wrote:
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> > 1. I have lost a big chunk of data. In the range of GBs. It was
> > commercially important data.
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> But apparently not "commercially important" enough to have backup
> copies of it made.
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> >> Was restored from backup but a day's work lost. That apart,
> >> point is not really this. I understand, no file system is 100%
> >> perfect . After all, why do we take backups.
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> >> Point really is Vulnerability Factor.
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> No filesystem is perfect. All software has bugs. No version of XFS
> "WORKS" (to use your emphasis), they all strive to be perfect but will
> fail under some circumstances. The best the XFS team can do is to find
> those circumstances, replicate the problem and craft a solution. When
> a new combination of circumstances arises (and the fact that the XFS
> team is targeting a moving kernel project with significant changes
> happening all the time), the XFS code may exhibit a new type of
> unwanted behavior. That is life.
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> If your data is important, you cannot trust any filesystem, on any
> operating system, on any piece of hardware, to hold the _sole_ copy of
> that data. If you put yourself in that position, then you have only
> yourself to blame. It could have been a hardware failure or an
> operating system malfunction that caused your data loss as easily as
> it could have been XFS.
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