Johnny Hughes wrote: > I know that XFS gets all the press about being a great performing file > system ... but if you want the best stability on CentOS, you should at > least consider ext3 instead. > > I have worked very hard to get stable code for xfs in centos-4 and > centos-5, and lots of people use it, but (IMHO) ext3 is still much more > stable with the CentOS Kernels. > > That is my $0.02 ... I'm sure other people will tell you I am all hosed > up :D > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes EXT3 performance is lacking in many areas and its support for larger file systems is still a problem. However, it is rock solid and hopefully EXT4 will address the performance and file system limit issues. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com