KDEs fault tolerance!

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday 27 May 2004 12:32, Rikard Johnels wrote:

> Found the following info on XFS:
>
> XFS is a filesystem with metadata journaling that is fully supported under
> Gentoo Linux's xfs-sources kernel. It comes with a robust feature-set and
> is optimized for scalability. We only recommend using this filesystem on
> Linux systems with high-end SCSI and/or fibre channel storage and a
> uninterruptible power supply. Because XFS aggressively caches in-transit
> data in RAM, improperly designed programs (those that don't take proper
> precautions when writing files to disk and there are quite a few of them)
> can lose a good deal of data if the system goes down unexpectedly.

Oh dear!

Thanks for digging up this information.
I will stay away from XFS in my future setups.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
www.mrunix.de - Unix/Linux programming forum
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