Re: the thing with the binary zeroes

[Jason White <jasonjgw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

martin f krafft writes:
 > also sprach David J N Begley <d.begley@xxxxxxxxxx> [2005.02.14.1116 +0100]:
 > 
 > > (a) people's expectations of XFS are misaligned with XFS' intended work
 > >     environment, in which case the documentaion needs to be updated to
 > >     include a prominent notice in order to correct people's expectations
 > >     (eg., cannot use XFS and expect minimal data loss unless apps are
 > >     written a certain way, full hardware RAID is used and UPS guarantees
 > >     no power loss);
 > 
 > Is this actually a recommendation? It makes perfect sense, but
 > I have been using XFS on every workstation, including laptops, with
 > success for years now, and I can usually warmly recommend it. Should
 > I maybe stop doing so, considering that XFS seems to be more of
 > a data center filesystem than one for the workstation or "casual
 > server"?

No, not at all. I have been happily using xfs on my workstation since
2001 and have never had any files containing binary zeros, despite
various power failures.