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...