On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 09:00 -0400, Brent L. Bates wrote:
I wouldn't use any other file system than XFS as it is the most reliablefile system out there. We've been using XFS on a x86 system for over a year now and haven't had any file system problems. It has actually saved us on occasion. From what I've read, people have only reported problems when they pile layer upon layer of stuff on their disks. Logical volumes, NFS, etc., etc.. We are using XFS on RAID drives, both RAID 1 and 0, and the only extra item we add is NFS. Before our Linux boxes, we've used XFS on SGI's for probably over a decade of dependable and reliable service.
I agree that it is a good filesystem. But its reliability relies a bit on the iron you have. XFS does lazy writes, this prevents some fragmentation and unnecessary writes, but can cause a larger loss of data when some hardware fails.
Also watch out with 4K stack kernels.
-- Daniel