Messages in this thread | | | From | "Al Boldi" <> | Subject | RE: XFS corruption during power-blackout | Date | Fri, 1 Jul 2005 17:05:11 +0300 |
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Jens Axboe wrote: { On Fri, Jul 01 2005, David Masover wrote: > Chris Wedgwood wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:53:09AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > > > > > >>What I found were 4 things in the dest dir: > >>1. Missing Dirs,Files. That's OK. > >>2. Files of size 0. That's acceptable. > >>3. Corrupted Files. That's unacceptable. > >>4. Corrupted Files with original fingerprint. That's ABSOLUTELY > >>unacceptable. > > > > > >disk usually default to caching these days and can lose data as a > >result, disable that > > Not always possible. Some disks lie and leave caching on anyway.
And the same (and others) disks will not honor a flush anyways. Moral of that story - avoid bad hardware. }
1. Sync is not the issue. The issue is whether a journaled FS can detect corrupted files and flag them after a power-blackout! 2. Moral of the story is: What's ext3 doing the others aren't?
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