Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Wed Dec 17 23:48:53 UTC 2008


On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 09:33:47PM +0100, nodata wrote:
> XFS has a nasty bug where it will leave files full of zeros on disk in a
> crash.
> 
> 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.

Not guilty.

Ext3 has a set of options for data journalling (at a performance cost). XFS
is not something I look into the innards of as I don't have enough chickens
to sacrifice





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