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Re: RAID needs more to survive a power hit, different /boot layout for e

To: Moshe Yudkowsky <moshe@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: RAID needs more to survive a power hit, different /boot layout for example (was Re: draft howto on making raids for surviving a disk crash)
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:45:19 -0600
Cc: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Michael Tokarev <mjt@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Moshe Yudkowsky wrote:
> So if I understand you correctly, you're stating that current the most 
> reliable fs in its default configuration, in terms of protection against 
> power-loss scenarios, is XFS?

I wouldn't go that far without some real-world poweroff testing, because
various fs's are probably more or less tolerant of a write-cache
evaporation.  I suppose it'd depend on the size of the write cache as well.

-Eric


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