Tim Connors <tconnors@rather.puzzling.org> wrote:
XFS has recently taken the place of my backuppc server with its 14million inodes[1]. I like the fact that it has 20GB more space available to it, because somehow it simultaneously uses less space for the metadata, dynamically allocates the inodes, but only uses 7% of the available inodes, whereas the previous ext4 incarnation has been using 25% of the available inodes, and still took 20GB more to store them. But it's slower, I'm worried about the NFS lockup problem Craig mentioned, and I don't like disappearing files, even (especially?) on a backup/archival server. Am I going to spend another month moving it all back to ext4?
Have you had disappearing files, or confirmation that there's a bug which will cause them on your kernel version, or are you just worried by this thread that data might be lost?