Re: [CentOS] XFS or EXT3 ?

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Keith Roberts keith@karsites.net wrote:

There was a similar thread about which is the best FS for Centos.

I'm using ext3, and wondered if XFS would be more 'data safe' than ext3.

If your work load doesn't dictate the use of XFS, I would personally stick with EXT3. It's the default file system on thousands and thousands of machines, so I would be willing to bet that the widespread deployment of EXT3 would flush out show stopping bugs rather quickly. There was a thread discussing this on the LKML a while back. You might try searching there to get feedback from the folks who actually write the file systems.

- Ryan -- http://prefetch.net