I've read as much as I could find on XFS, and have used XFS extensively on
production systems, for quite a long time, with virtually no problems
whatsoever. Still, I regularly hear comments about the increased risk of data
loss with XFS, due to it's aggressive caching. This really doesn't make sense
to me based on what I know about XFS.
Could someone explain to me, is this a myth, something that carried over from
older versions, or is it a reality. If it is a real risk, is the risk greater
than with other filesystems such as reiser3, ext3, jfs, etc, and to what
degree? I don't see this being much of an issue on servers anyway, since who
wouldn't have a production server on a UPS, but still it seems the data
loss/caching issue is one of the only negatives (real or not), that I see
regularly mentioned in regards to XFS.
Thanks,
Vern
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