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