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by dekhn 4431 days ago
Am I correct in noting that none of his benchmarks actually timed how long it took for the data to be durably committed to disk, to the limit that the OS can report that?

I would never do XFS benchmarks because in my experience if XFS is writing during powerdown, it trashses the FS (maybe this was fixed in the past 6 years, but after it happened 3 times I haven't touched the OS again).
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Wilya 4431 days ago
One of the most catastrophical failure modes of XFS was fixed in 2007 [0]. Or at least that's what is said. I never dared touch XFS again after losing a fs to it, so I can't really confirm what it looks like today.

[0] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....

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