On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 10:19 +1000, Dan wrote: > Renich Bon Ciric wrote: > >> Why do you think you need to run xfs_repair ? > > When the power goes off or my PC freezes (check out the firefox > freezing > > thread) I have to do a hard reset. This, sometimes, generates > > inconsistencies on the fs. > > Fair enough. I have found xfs to be extremely tolerant of power > failures. Indeed, at my previous residence, brief power outages and > brown outs would be a monthly occurance. > > Have you tried ext3 on this system? Does ext3 get corrupted from > power > outages and hard resets? Well, I used to have ext3 installed... I find xfs faster and better in overall. That's all I have to say. > > > For example, once, I had to do an xfs_repair because > > certain /usr/share/doc directory was inaccessible and was causing > all > > kinds of trouble when yum upgrade -y was run by me. > > A few years ago I had a PCI firewire card in my machine, with an > external usb2/firewire drive enclosure. Doing pretty much any kind of > I/O would render the drive inaccessable. In the end it turned out > that > my firewire card was dodgy; when using usb2 there were no such > problems. > > I needed to use xfs_repair here to recover data several times before > i > got a clue. Funnily enough, I even formatted the drive with ext3 > thinking there was a problem with xfs and firewire, but the > corruption > continued. > > The fireware card behaved the same on a windows machine. Do pretty > much > any I/O and ntfs would be seriously corrupted. > > > xfs_repair did the job well. I would like to be able to run it > without > > having to reboot to the rescue cd... Or, maybe, generating a rescue > > partition would be cool too! > > This probably is not much good to you now, more for when you next > install Fedora. However, you may wish to partition your drive(s). Put > /home /tmp /usr /var on separate partitions. This way, you can boot > or > switch into runlevel 1 and run xfs_repair against pretty much any fs, > but only as long as your root fs is working. Well, usually, my problems are @ the root partition. I do use a separate partition for /home and /boot and that's about it... Thanks, Dan, for your input, once again. -- Renich Bon Ciric http://www.woralelandia.com/ # Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=674792460 # introbella (band) http://www.introbella.com/ # Smolt uuid (pub_3e18efc2-dee4-459f-8d40-ddf489be817d) http://www.smolts.org/client/show/?uuid=pub_3e18efc2-dee4-459f-8d40-ddf489be817d
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