Re: Disappearing /, /home

[Jim Eshleman <jce0@Lehigh.EDU>]

Jason White wrote:

> So, to summarize the current state of XFS, would I be correcting in
> saying the following?
> 
> The data-corrupting bug (overwriting the first blocks of an XFS file
> system upon forced shutdown) has been fixed. There are still some
> problems with spurious forced shutdowns, however, that remain to be traced.
> 
> I think there are still difficulties with kernel Oopses as well again
> without a clear cause? Beyond this, there are compatibility issues
> with LVM that are still being addressed.
> 
>>From reading the list, this at least is my impression of where the
> ongoing issues lie. Of course it is probably also true that XFS is
> working reliably for most users.
> 


   Well Jason, I'm quite happy with vanilla 2.4.17 + xfs-2.4.17-split, 
dated 22 Jan, I think.  I've almost 300G now on top of LVM on top of 
hardware raid on a very busy 8-way 8.5G production mail server and 
haven't seen any funnies yet.  Just a data point, and thanks to the XFS 
team.

Jim