Kirk Bocek wrote: > Feizhou wrote: > >> The thing is, I do not see a lot of stuff going on with JFS on LKML. >> reiser v3 bugs pop up now and then, XFS had spats going on and ext3 is >> rather lack luster and still gets reports now and then. Upstream going >> with ext3 is rather expected since Redhat is the backer of ext3 just as >> Suse is behind reiser v3. >> > > Okay, so Feizhou is of the glass-is-half-empty school of filesystems. :) > > Joshua says he has been using XFS for years. Can anyone else share > anecdotes regarding XFS? Anyone else happy with it? > Is your process even disk throughput bound? If not, you may be agonizing over a decision that needn't even be taken if the "tried and true" and default supported file system (ext3) is "fast enough" to avoid becoming a bottleneck. That's where I find myself so I've taken the easy way out, for now, and have stuck with the standard file system. Cheers,