[CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 64bit

Thu Dec 23 07:35:35 UTC 2010
bedo <bedo.wang at gmail.com>

ext4 better then ext3 !
you can install ext4 by yum
see:
https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#Compatibility

2010/12/23 <cpolish at surewest.net>

> Matt wrote:
> > Is ext4 stable on CentOS 5.5 64bit?  I have an email server with a
> > great deal of disk i/o and was wandering if ext4 would be better then
> > ext3 for it?
>
> Before committing to ext4 on a production server, it
> would be good to consider the comments made in
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/317781/comments/45
> which presumably still apply to current CentOS 5.5 64-bit kernels.
> As I read it, Ts'o argues that the apparent loss of stability
> compared to ext3 is a design issue in the realm of applications
> that run atop it. I hope this is not a misreading.
> --
> Charles Polisher
>
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