[CentOS] Calling All FS Fanatics

Mon Oct 9 11:58:20 UTC 2006
Andreas Micklei <andreas.micklei at ivistar.de>

Am Sonntag, 8. Oktober 2006 22:14 schrieb Kirk Bocek:
> I'm going to leave the OS volumes (/, /boot, /var, etc) as ext3. This
> should reduce the chances of creating a non-bootable system. I'm going to
> take a leap of faith and use XFS on my 'data' volumes. I'm sure I can make
> use of the 200MB/Sec writes I've benchmarked with bonnie++.

Same setup here. Works beautifully. NFS, Samba and Kolab run really fast on 
our x86_64 machine.

Regarding concerns of filesystem corruption: Always make backups. There can be 
a hardware crash or some other catastrophy any time. Using ext3 does not safe 
you the trouble of making proper backups and planning for disaster. And if 
you have a good backup strategy anyway... why not try XFS? :-)

regards,
Andreas Micklei