Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis

[Les Mikesell]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
>>> So, we switch to xfs as the default FS? :-)
>>
>> XFS has a nasty bug where it will leave files full of zeros on disk in a
>> crash.
> 
> 
> No, it doesn't.  Not any more (and technically not ever; what happened
> was a truncate & extension of the file (like vi might do) led to a size
> on disk but no extents so you got a sparse file.  If the apps looked
> after their data as they should, this wouldn't happen either, but that's
> just an aside).
> 
> But anyway,
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git&a=commitdiff&h=ba87ea699ebd9dd577bf055ebc4a98200e337542
> 
> 
>> I think it was Alan Cox that said this could be fixed quite easily by
>> changing the write ordering for XFS, but that someone who was willing to
>> maintain the patch would need to do it.
>>
>> If this was merged I would love to move to XFS :)

Hasn't there always been a problem with xfs and 4k stacks?  Or are you 
only talking about 64-bit versions here?

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   Les Mikesell
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