Anybody use xfs?

[mahlerfan]

Up until now I've always been conservative and chosen either ext3 or reiser. Especially since the gentoo handbook made it sound like only deranged crazies would use it....

but I recently read an article on practical benchmarks for the different file systems, and it made xfs look really promising.

I decided to go ahead and take the plunge. I decided to use it for the Linux From Scratch system that I have started working on. Has anybody here used this fs? If you have, what was it like? Was it that much faster? Was it unstable? Am I setting myself up for a fall, or are the dangers being blown out of proportion in my mind?

[Juan Pablo]

I have used XFS for a while but after a power failure the file system became corrupt instantly. Tried to check the file system without luck and my system became unbootable, finished doing some backups and reformating my system.

It didn't work for me.

Just my two cents

[antidrugue]

I have been using XFS for about the last 6 months. I never had a problem with it. On the contrary, I did had serious unrecoverable issues with ReiserFS.

After reading those benchmarks I became interested in XFS :
http://linuxgazette.net/122/TWDT.html#piszcz
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388

But as far as I can tell the only 100% reliable filesystem is ext3, unless you have a really nice UPS to make sure your machine will never go out of power.

[mahlerfan]

Thanks for the feedback. I guess I was runnng the same risk with reiser all this time. Well if I suffer any problems with any non-ext3 fs I will not be surprised, but I'm going to boldly carry on with xfs.

Tonight is the point of no return. I have constructed my temporary toolchain, and tonight is when I chroot in there and start building things. So I'm still open for hearing warnings of my impending doom until then. If there's anything else I should know...