Hi Brent, Thanks for the reply.

I have to make a decision yes, it is not an easy one either, I read have so many different reports, opinions that I now feel my brain has become rather scrambled.. Wondering now if I should just have smaller filesystems and stick with EXT3.. I have never used XFS and have therefore no experience with it and this I guess leaves me short of confidence.

On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Brent L. Bates wrote:

 It is up to you to decide.  Do you go with a file system, XFS, that has

15 YEARS of use and EXABYTES of storage behinding it? Or do you go with ext4, something that has just been declared `stable'. How important is the data on those drives? Will you have excellent tape backup of that data not just copies on another ext4 file system, but verified tape backups?

 I prefer using something I know works and has survived numerous system

crashes with out missing a beat.

Steve