On 8/6/07, Brent L. Bates blbates@vigyan.com 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.
Please don't misunderstand. I absolutely support the use of xfs. Just not on a kernel with 4k stacks. You're right that it's stable, and that only folks who have layered environments have reported issues. But because there are some gotchas with it, I don't recommend it across the board. I tend to keep the system itself on ext3, and the data on a completely separate partition with xfs.