One quick not on this, is there anything I can do kernel wise to prevent
this without striking a crapload of overhead on the system?
--
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gonyou, Austin
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 12:41 PM
> To: 'Seth Mos'; Gonyou, Austin; XFS mailing list
> Subject: RE: System lock while accessing files causes file corruption
>
>
> That's all well and good..but what about the configuration
> files? They are text and are not redundant in the same way. I
> know it's been done to death..and I've read a lot of this
> stuff, but even after making thanges, etc, especially if I
> use logbufs > 2, I can make this happen at will. That's why
> I've got concerns. I know about the points Keith made, and
> very valid in this case especially, but my major concern is
> deploying a TB size db only to get taken down that my configs
> are messed up. (yes, I know that's what backups and CVS are
> for) but that's not acceptable when talking about my primary
> FS. I'm going to go through as many iterations of this as I
> can to see if I can narrow down exactly what and where, what
> hardware, etc. We're about to do a major deployment and I'm
> just trying to do due dilligence, beyond the FAQ and random
> mails. Thanks for listening, and this can certainly come
> off-list if you feel that's best. I really don't want to beat
> a dead horse anymore than I have to. Assurance of success in
> this respect is very important. We don't have a lot of
> storage to throw around.
>
> --
> Austin Gonyou
> Systems Architect, CCNA
> Coremetrics, Inc.
> Phone: 512-796-9023
> email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Seth Mos [mailto:knuffie@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 7:18 PM
> > To: Gonyou, Austin; XFS mailing list
> > Subject: Re: System lock while accessing files causes file
> corruption
> >
> >
> > At 18:16 2-9-2001 -0500, Gonyou, Austin wrote:
> > >Why is this? If I open a file, text/otherwise and the power
> > actually fails,
> > >(i turn it off), once in a while I get a corrupt file. Why
> > is this? What
> > >would happen if I was writing to some Oracle filesystems and
> > this situation
> > >occurred? Please advise.
> >
> > See the http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#nulls
> >
> > A database would survive since most have their own buffering and
> > transaction scheme.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Seth
> > Every program has two purposes one for which
> > it was written and another for which it wasn't
> > I use the last kind.
> >
>
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