Questions about XFS

[Stefan Ring]

> Let's take a simple example - a database app that does say 30
> transactions/sec.
>
> In your example, you are extremely likely to lose up to just shy of 5
> seconds of "committed" data - way over 100 transactions!  That can be
> *really* serious amounts of data and translate into large financial loss.

Every database software will do the flushing correctly.

> In a second example, let's say you are copying data to disk (say a movie) at
> a rate of 50 MB/second.  When the power cut hits at just the wrong time, you
> will have lost a large chunk of that data that has been "written" to disk
> (over 200MB).

But why would anyone care about that? I know that the system went down
while copying this large movie, so I'll just copy it again.