[CentOS] XFS and CentOS 4.3

Daniel de Kok wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 09:15 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>   
>> Almost every time I've tested performance for my workload of interest, XFS 
>> kicks the $#@)$ out of ext3
>>     
>
> It is clearly a trade-off. E.g. XFS's lazy allocation causes less writes
> and less fragmentation. But in the event of a crash it is likely that
> you will lose more data on filesystems with a lot of variable data than
> ext3.
>
Yes, XFS works great for heavy I/O loads like mail queues...until the 
box crashes during peak hours.


I wonder how Hans and reiser4 are getting along...