I must be very mean but the story of madduck about XFS made me laugh.

Let me explain: I exactly had the same kind of problem on my workstation 2 years ago. A single hard reboot used to totally fuck up some random files (which were opened in read-only mode before the crash, like libraries) on my file system. Since that day I regularly spite on XFS, and I am quite amused that more than 2 years later, XFS is still totally crap!

I don't understand how a so broken file system can be still in the Linux kernel. Even without power outage, I used to have dead lock problems by simply moving a (big) file and opening it at the same time. Even if I heard that this bug was fixed some versions later, I totally stopped to use that filesystem in favor of ext3, which is really the more stable filesystem I have ever seen (maybe after ext2 :-)).