Gene Heskett írta:
On Sunday 01 January 2006 06:47, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
Florin Andrei írta:
On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 18:46 +0100, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
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.
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...
http://www.sgi.com/products/
...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.
I wanted XFS for that purpose, too.
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?
Is that not a typo above, and should be IBM/Hitachi DeathStar?
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
