Re: Segfault of xfs_repair during repair of a xfs filesystem

[Arthur Corliss <corliss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Greg Freemyer wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 02:49, Rainer Krienke wrote:
> <snip>
> > - Can a filesystem with tansaction logging like xfs become inconsitant 
> > because
> > of a power fail? There is no disk failure!
> >
>
> Do you have write-caching disabled in your drives/raid controller.
>
> IIRC, XFS requires that it be disabled to ensure the transaction log
> works as advertised.  This definately impacts speed, but ...

Some of the higher-end cards have battery backup for fast-write cache.  You
shouldn't have to disable it for those units.

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