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XFS doesn't have an impressive track record when it comes to data loss, either. Come on people, every filesystem with large number of users has had their screw-
by kasabali 11y ago
XFS doesn't have an impressive track record when it comes to data loss, either. Come on people, every filesystem with large number of users has had their screw-ups.
- istvan__ 11y agoWell I am not sure about that, as anecdotal evidence, most systems engineers I know use XFS as default on their systems. This might be coincidence, but I think it is just a sign that XFS has less "screw-ups" than ext3/4. A representative survey would help to prove it.
- AceJohnny2 11y agoWell, if we're going by anecdotal evidence, I've had a big loss when an XFS-on-RAID system had a power failure about 4 years ago, and recently I know someone who's lost hundreds of gigs to XFS as well, with no power loss that he's aware of. So there.
- rodgerd 11y agoTrue. I am not, however, aware of the XFS developers ever deliberately changing the behaviour of an older version of XFS to make it less safe to match the data corruption problems in a newer version.