>> So, we switch to xfs as the default FS? :-)
>
> XFS has a nasty bug where it will leave files full of zeros on disk in a
> crash.
No, it doesn't. Not any more (and technically not ever; what happened
was a truncate & extension of the file (like vi might do) led to a size
on disk but no extents so you got a sparse file. If the apps looked
after their data as they should, this wouldn't happen either, but that's
just an aside).
But anyway,
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git&a=co...
> I think it was Alan Cox that said this could be fixed quite easily by
> changing the write ordering for XFS, but that someone who was willing to
> maintain the patch would need to do it.
>
> If this was merged I would love to move to XFS :)
Hasn't there always been a problem with xfs and 4k stacks? Or are you
only talking about 64-bit versions here?
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