On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Simon Matter wrote:
> Jim,
>
> It's obvious that lifetime is reduced with write caching off. Just
> listen to the drive and compare between w/cache on / off. What helps
> here is that Linux uses memory for caching effectively.
>
> Some weeks ago I brought an issue to this list. I got zero filled files
> after _clean_ reboots and I thought it was the write cache of the IDE
> drives not flushing correctly. In fact I got bitten by the 'remount
> readonly bug' and it had nothing to do with the write chache being
> turned on.
about a week after migrating my RH 7.2 desktop box to XFS, I started
loosing setting in GNOME 1.4 and I also lost all of my bookmarks in
mozilla 0.9.9, I did test XFS with a simulated powerfailure just to see if
everything works and it went well.
today I had a real powerfailure and after the box was back up again I lost
all of the settings in GNOME, everything went back to its default
settings, I cant say if the config files were corupted or had 0 sizes.
is this because these applications are not compatible with XFS? or
because of my hardware? or is this a needed feature/bug fix not yet in XFS
code?
is there a work around to this? please share or its back to ext3 for me.
im running kernel linux-2.4.18-xfs-20020418 from CVS and the tools from
that tree also.
Thanks,
Mark M. Barrios
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