[CentOS] CentOS things to mod for VMware server

[Daniel de Kok]

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 09:00 -0400, Brent L. Bates wrote:
>      I wouldn't use any other file system than XFS as it is the most reliable
> file system out there.  We've been using XFS on a x86 system for over a year
> now and haven't had any file system problems.  It has actually saved us on
> occasion.  From what I've read, people have only reported problems when they
> pile layer upon layer of stuff on their disks.  Logical volumes, NFS, etc.,
> etc..  We are using XFS on RAID drives, both RAID 1 and 0, and the only extra
> item we add is NFS.  Before our Linux boxes, we've used XFS on SGI's for
> probably over a decade of dependable and reliable service.

I agree that it is a good filesystem. But its reliability relies a bit
on the iron you have. XFS does lazy writes, this prevents some
fragmentation and unnecessary writes, but can cause a larger loss of
data when some hardware fails.

Also watch out with 4K stack kernels.

-- Daniel