Re: Segfault of xfs_repair during repair of a xfs filesystem

[Greg Freemyer <freemyer-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 05:35, Rainer Krienke wrote:

> In between I contacted the vendor of the hardware IDE raids. The technician 
> confirmed that these raids have a read/write cache and that there is *no* 
> battery backup. So in case of an active filesystem where suddenly there is a 
> powerfail, it is likely that the hardware cache in the raid is not written to 
> disk and the filesystem will be become inconsitent. And this very probably 
> happened in my case. 
> 
XFS gurus:

If Rainer's raid system can not have the write cache enabled, is he
getting any benefit from the XFS Journaling?

I guess if it is an external array which does not have to have its power
cycled if/when the server has its power cycled, then at least the
journaling is used in the event of a kernel lockup.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer