Daniel Fonseca wrote:
> Hi Eric!
>
> Don't you think that this is a major nuisance? I mean, I am very glad
> with XFS on the server level, but at my home machine I have ext3 and xfs
> (using, testing and comparison purposes) and everytime there's a hard
> reset (too many times lately, unfortunately) only the files on the xfs
> partition get this "screwed". Ext3 truncates (or whatever) them, but
> loosing the whole files is very bad on the user's point of view -
> configuration files, for example, drove my client applications mad to
> the point that I removed xfs completely, to avoid this. Enabling and
> pressing the Magic SysRq key and flushing out is not a clean solution,
> IMHO.
>
> I seem to remember this being a bug reported some time ago, and thought
> it was corrected, though.
Hmm, hmm, IMO it's not a bug, but a feature ;) If you want your data
reliable on disk mount it -osync. That's what I do on partitions where I
won't risk running into this "zero"-issue. Oh well, I think we all are a
bit pampered (right word? please correct me) by ext3 :-)
> It's never enough to say how great your job has been for all of us!
Yes, indeed!
Juri
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