On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>wrote:
Nick Edwards put forth on 1/28/2011 9:47 PM:
xfs is not very nice to you if you lose power, it's not as bad as it used to be, but it still gives you 0 byte files, so make sure you have a good UPS to issue a safe shutdown of the server, if you do, xfs is better, using CentOS.
It would be nice if you spoke from experience or documentation instead of rumor.
I do speak from experience, it is also a /very/ well known fact, for someone who rants on and on and on with self justification, you sure don't actually know a lot do you.
Not that it is any of anyones business but we operated XFS years before we moved to a dedicated hardware NFS server, because we too did not think it could be as bad as we had heard, but it was, and at that time we housed our equipment off-site, so were dependent upon the colos UPS and generators which failed often enough for us to see the mess it causes, now days, we host in-house and wont ever outsource hosting again, if it fails now, we do only have ourselves to blame, luckily, we have had perfect uptime since that move and never needed snapshots to recover.
I've been using XFS on Postfix/Dovecot servers for quite some time and have had power loss on at least 2 occasions with zero data loss or FS corruption. What you state is factually incorrect. Stop spreading XFS FUD please, Nick.
BS, how many users do you have? How busy are your servers? obviously not much of either I'd say based on what you claim on this list, until you have real world experience, that means greater than the pewny userbase you have, please do not sprout what you think as being gospel, you only make yourself look like an ever bigger ranting fool.
Here's another hint, never believe everything you read on wikipedia or Google, so much of it is from people who have less of a clue than you.
Timo moderated some other clown last week, it is a pitty he did not moderate a few others, I have seen so much rubbish from you, and your 555 pages of ranting replies trying to blind those who have not woken up to you yet, it is astounding. Wietse put you in your place on postfix list late last year about ranting on about stuff you have no idea about, but you clearly did not learn a thing from that at all either.
People like yourself, are in the category of "a little information in the hands of some can be very, very dangerous" for newbies.
nick