19 Apr
2011
19 Apr
'11
5:42 p.m.
On a running 64 bit CentOS 5.6 box is it possible to convert from Ext3 to Ext4 to improve performance? Right now I can deal with a few hours of downtime on it. This is an email server with lots of I/O due to seek time. Software RAID1 as well. Will Ext4 offer much of an improvement?