"Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker(at)acm(dot)org> writes:
> We've also seen XFS panic because of inconsistent in-memory
> metadata.
From this fact alone we may deduce with absolute confidence that
either your hardware or your filesystem implementation are faulty.
There is no combination of operations which any application, buggy or
not, that can cause a properly written XFS driver on error-free
hardware to become corrupted.
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