Kirk Bocek wrote: > > > chrism at imntv.com wrote: >> To what end? I'd absolutely NEVER use it in production that way. >> That's *plenty* fast for me. > > On the current system I built, the best I could get from ext3 on a > 4-drive raid-5 array was 95MB/Sec writes. With XFS I'm getting > 220MB/Sec+. For a media server, I want the extra speed. Well, you saw my results. I'm happy with the speed and this is a server for fondling uncompressed video. So while I want to maximize the speed, I'm not going to take "unnecessarily foolish" risks with a filesystem that (at least to me) doesn't seem like it's quite reliable enough. Seems like the answer to your problem is just to buy 4 more disks. :) Cheers,