On Jun 23, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Marian Marinov mm@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