- 1. Data safety horror stories? (score: 1)
- Author: "Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:46:29 +0100
- I heard that, in case of a power failure, XFS may lose data, even data that was already existing on the disk. For example, I heard horror stories of files being overwritten with zeros. Are those stor
- /archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00092.html (8,215 bytes)
- 2. Re: Data safety horror stories? (score: 1)
- Author: Iustin Pop <iusty@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:12:09 +0100
- No, XFS will not lose any data that the application has committed to the disk. Improperly written applications and/or improperly configured systems might have issues with recently written files losin
- /archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00093.html (8,911 bytes)
- 3. Re: Data safety horror stories? (score: 1)
- Author: "Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:23:09 +0100
- Hi Justin, thanks for the info! OK, but just to make sure: The following FAQ entry refers only to *newly* created files - right? http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#nulls Again, just to make sur
- /archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00094.html (9,472 bytes)
- 4. Re: Data safety horror stories? (score: 1)
- Author: David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:03:39 +1100
- Depends on how much you care about your system and data. I use XFS on write-cache enabled SATA drives without barriers with no UPS (yes, it's unsafe!) and I lose power at least once a week. I haven't
- /archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00095.html (9,889 bytes)
- 5. Re: Data safety horror stories? (score: 1)
- Author: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:28:45 +0100
- Am Montag 11 Februar 2008 schrieb Felix E. Klee: Hi Felix, I recommend to read my article about write barriers and journalling filesystems for some basic understanding. http://www.linux-magazin.de/he
- /archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00183.html (10,567 bytes)
- 6. Re: Data safety horror stories? (score: 1)
- Author: "Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:41:51 +0100
- Dankeschön - Deutsch ist doch kein Problem. :-) -- Dipl.-Phys. Felix E. Klee Naunynstr. 2, 76530 Baden-Baden, Germany Tel.: +49 7221 396961, Fax: +49 7221 396960, Mobile: +49 174 1386060 http://www
- /archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00184.html (9,104 bytes)
- 7. Re: Data safety horror stories? (score: 1)
- Author: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:49:22 +0100
- Am Montag 18 Februar 2008 schrieb Felix E. Klee: One thing to add: We have XFS also running on a web cluster for a customer with softraid 1 over two RAID arrays. We made sure that write caching is di
- /archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00185.html (9,802 bytes)
- 8. Re: Data safety horror stories? (score: 1)
- Author: David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:50:43 +1100
- No - it can affect an file where the write is extending the file. The NULLs problem should be very rare now - we've fixed the common causes of this problem.... I suggest watching the video of this ta
- /archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00186.html (9,553 bytes)
- 9. Data safety horror stories? (score: 1)
- Author: "Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:46:29 +0100
- I heard that, in case of a power failure, XFS may lose data, even data that was already existing on the disk. For example, I heard horror stories of files being overwritten with zeros. Are those stor
- /archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00508.html (8,215 bytes)
- 10. Re: Data safety horror stories? (score: 1)
- Author: Iustin Pop <iusty@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:12:09 +0100
- No, XFS will not lose any data that the application has committed to the disk. Improperly written applications and/or improperly configured systems might have issues with recently written files losin
- /archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00509.html (8,911 bytes)
- 11. Re: Data safety horror stories? (score: 1)
- Author: "Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:23:09 +0100
- Hi Justin, thanks for the info! OK, but just to make sure: The following FAQ entry refers only to *newly* created files - right? http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#nulls Again, just to make sur
- /archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00510.html (9,472 bytes)
- 12. Re: Data safety horror stories? (score: 1)
- Author: David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:03:39 +1100
- Depends on how much you care about your system and data. I use XFS on write-cache enabled SATA drives without barriers with no UPS (yes, it's unsafe!) and I lose power at least once a week. I haven't
- /archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00511.html (9,889 bytes)
- 13. Re: Data safety horror stories? (score: 1)
- Author: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:28:45 +0100
- Am Montag 11 Februar 2008 schrieb Felix E. Klee: Hi Felix, I recommend to read my article about write barriers and journalling filesystems for some basic understanding. http://www.linux-magazin.de/he
- /archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00599.html (10,567 bytes)
- 14. Re: Data safety horror stories? (score: 1)
- Author: "Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:41:51 +0100
- Dankeschön - Deutsch ist doch kein Problem. :-) -- Dipl.-Phys. Felix E. Klee Naunynstr. 2, 76530 Baden-Baden, Germany Tel.: +49 7221 396961, Fax: +49 7221 396960, Mobile: +49 174 1386060 http://www
- /archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00600.html (9,104 bytes)
- 15. Re: Data safety horror stories? (score: 1)
- Author: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:49:22 +0100
- Am Montag 18 Februar 2008 schrieb Felix E. Klee: One thing to add: We have XFS also running on a web cluster for a customer with softraid 1 over two RAID arrays. We made sure that write caching is di
- /archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00601.html (9,802 bytes)
- 16. Re: Data safety horror stories? (score: 1)
- Author: David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:50:43 +1100
- No - it can affect an file where the write is extending the file. The NULLs problem should be very rare now - we've fixed the common causes of this problem.... I suggest watching the video of this ta
- /archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00602.html (9,553 bytes)
- 17. Data safety horror stories? (score: 1)
- Author: "Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:46:29 +0100
- I heard that, in case of a power failure, XFS may lose data, even data that was already existing on the disk. For example, I heard horror stories of files being overwritten with zeros. Are those stor
- /archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00924.html (8,215 bytes)
- 18. Re: Data safety horror stories? (score: 1)
- Author: Iustin Pop <iusty@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:12:09 +0100
- No, XFS will not lose any data that the application has committed to the disk. Improperly written applications and/or improperly configured systems might have issues with recently written files losin
- /archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00925.html (8,981 bytes)
- 19. Re: Data safety horror stories? (score: 1)
- Author: "Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:23:09 +0100
- Hi Justin, thanks for the info! OK, but just to make sure: The following FAQ entry refers only to *newly* created files - right? http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#nulls Again, just to make sur
- /archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00926.html (9,610 bytes)
- 20. Re: Data safety horror stories? (score: 1)
- Author: David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:03:39 +1100
- Depends on how much you care about your system and data. I use XFS on write-cache enabled SATA drives without barriers with no UPS (yes, it's unsafe!) and I lose power at least once a week. I haven't
- /archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00927.html (9,959 bytes)
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