Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

John R Pierce wrote:

I've always avoided XFS because A) it wsan't supported natively in RHEL anyways, and B) I've heard far too many stories about catastrophic loss problems and day long FSCK sessions after power failures [1] or what have you

I've both heard about and experienced first-hand data loss (pretty severe actually, some incidents pretty recent) with XFS after power failure. It used to be great for performance (not so great now that Ext4 is on the rise), but reliability was never its strong point. The bias on this list is surprising and unjustified.

FWIW, I was at SGI when XFS for Linux was released, and I probably was among its first users. It was great back then, but now it's over-rated.