XFS file system

[Zoltan Boszormenyi]

Gene Heskett írta:

>On Sunday 01 January 2006 06:47, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
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>>Florin Andrei írta:
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>>>On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 18:46 +0100, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
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>>>>Well, I have installed FC3 that way (XFS on most partitions)
>>>>and now I regret it. All the time I have a power failure (very
>>>>rare) or a kernel crash, all the files that were opened O_RDWR
>>>>contain only zeroes after reboot.
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>>>It's best if there's a match between the tools and the purpose.
>>>
>>>XFS was designed first and foremost for performance. Clean behaviour
>>>in the case of sudden loss of power to the processing unit is not
>>>exactly a high-priority design constraint for systems such as
>>>these...
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>>>http://www.sgi.com/products/
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>>>...since the processing unit is always behind at least one layer of
>>>backup/redundant/uninterruptible power supplies.
>>>
>>>However, the highest performance possible is one of (if not THE)
>>>most important design constraints.
>>>Another assumption behind XFS is that storage is the best quality
>>>and therefore it does not lie when it reports back that the data
>>>was flushed all the way to the magnetic layer (which is something
>>>that cheap IDE drives/cards lie about, sometimes).
>>>
>>>Bottom line: use Ext3 for the general-purpose partitions. Use XFS
>>>for your MythTV partition, or the one used to do video capture, DVD
>>>backups, ISO images, etc.
>>>At least that's what I do.
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>>I wanted XFS for that purpose, too.
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>>Anyway, I intend to retire this 2 years old Maxtor,
>>please suggest a SATA drive that would be reliable.
>>Is IBM/Hitachi Deskstar known to not lie about the flush?
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>Is that not a typo above, and should be IBM/Hitachi DeathStar?
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If I understand it right, the DeskStar drives are likely to die soon
despite the 3 years warranty. :-(
Then please suggest another SATA NCQ capable drive that
YOU would buy for your own machine and has a 150+ MB capacity. :-)

Best regards,

Zoltán Böszörményi