I don't know about XFS-on-Linux, but I've used XFS on IRIX for ten years now and I've probably had a hundred unclean shutdowns.  I've only once had data corruption, and that was recently when there was some kind of dirty power event that threw five disks and two controllers in my array.

Even then a simple xfs-repair fixed that problem.  While my example is certainly anecdotal, folks may want to consider my assertion that XFS is certainly not fragile, at least not on IRIX.

Jeffrey.



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