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On 2008-06-24, Will Kemp <will@xxxx.swaggie.net> wrote:

>
> Why do you use xfs?
See below

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>> The text files in "lost+found" are a total mystery. They have
>> accumulated over a period of 2 years and appear to be either emails or
>> downloaded web-pages.  I never knew that any of the entries had been
>> lost :-(.
>
> That's a bit of a worry. If it was me, i'd be abandoning xfs and 
> changing to ext3! As it's not me, i'm just glad i use ext3 and not xfs! ;-)

My mileage with the ext3 filesystem was worse.  I used it (with Debian
Woody) on an aged HD.  The HD went past its use-by date and I had a
terrible job recovering the lost data and transferring it to a shiny
new HD. I have a hazy memory that the (new) HD's partition - which is
now unmountable - dates back to that disaster.


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>> The other partitions are a swap partition and two small
>> XFS partitions that I had created in the distant past and filled with
>> (backup?) contents that I can no longer recall (I now use a separate
>> HD for my backups!). "cfdisk" displays the starts and ends of these
>> partitions and "xfs_repair says that the file-systems are perfectly
>> healthy.  But I can no longer "mount" them and inspect their content.
>>
>> 
>> I worry about such mysteries and therefore thought them worth a
>> mention.
>
> I think you're right to worry about it. I'd be worried too.

Bang goes my last hope of hearing reassuring noises! :-(

Thank you for the advice.

Felix

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Felix Karpfen
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