From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262676AbVF2VNz (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:13:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262648AbVF2VNy (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:13:54 -0400 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:31978 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262650AbVF2VKp (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:10:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:10:28 +1000 From: Nathan Scott To: Steve Lord Cc: Chris Wedgwood , Al Boldi , linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout Message-ID: <20050630071027.A2559808@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> References: <20050629001847.GB850@frodo> <200506290453.HAA14576@raad.intranet> <556815.441dd7d1ebc32b4a80e049e0ddca5d18e872c6e8a722b2aefa7525e9504533049d801014.ANY@taniwha.stupidest.org> <42C2E0BC.8040508@xfs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <42C2E0BC.8040508@xfs.org>; from lord@xfs.org on Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:56:12PM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:56:12PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote: > I did spend a bunch of time once ensuring that when you typed > sync on xfs you could pull the power right after that and > everything from before the sync survived. There have been a > lot of changes both in xfs and the surrounding kernel since > then. I do not know if anyone has attempted this effort > again recently. Yep, someone has, a number of times. And as Homer would say "its still good!". cheers. -- Nathan