[CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?
Ross Walker
rswwalker at gmail.com
Fri Jun 24 22:41:07 UTC 2011
On Jun 23, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Marian Marinov <mm at yuhu.biz> wrote:
> On Friday 24 June 2011 04:34:20 Smithies, Russell wrote:
>> We have a single 27TB partition (35 x 1TB drives as RAID5+0 in an HP
>> MDS600), just formatted it xfs and had no problems with it so far. It's
>> used as scratch space so not too concerned about performance.
>>
>> --Russell
>>
>
> I have compared the performance of both XFS and Ext4. And since I use those
> big machines for backups, for me the write performance was very important.
> XFS was almost twice slower.
>
> But lets leave XFS alone :) Ext4 is the way to go :)
I use XFS for ESX NFS datastores and performance is very good for myself.
Though I know that XFS will only perform as good as the underlying physical storage and Ext4 may use more aggressive caching which makes less performant storage seem better.
-Ross
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