Re: [MLUG] Reasonable hard disk throughput numbers?

[Dave Lloyd <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Phillip Kelchen wrote:

> Also, XFS is supposed to be the best "big file throughput" file system. Its
> only downside is that it needs to be cleanly umounted or it will become
> corrupted. So you would need a UPS or something to ensure that you can
> cleanly umount the disk if the power goes off.

XFS is a journaled filesystem so it doesn't need to be cleanly
unmounted.  It *may* become corrupt if you keep umounting uncleanly, but
it's far more robust than the above paragraph seems to state.

ex-SGI employee,

--dlloyd

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