Shawn Everett wrote: >> I will be telling them wait for a power loss, wait for the XFS code to >> shut down one of its filesystem for no reason, take a good look at the >> neverending stream of bug fixes in the mainline kernel, take a look at >> those kernel developers who have openly announced they want nothing to >> do with the XFS codebase and to note the fact that the XFS code is the >> largest there is for a filesystem due to all the workarounds they have >> had to put into to deal with Linux's different vm and other stuff. >> > > I have a couple mission critical servers (3TB) that I formatted with JFS. > I have been completely happy with the results and have yet to see any > filesystem corruption. Great! JFS takes second on all benchmarks. Writes, reads, ... you name it. The only question that I have had was was it stable but I had yet to hear about it being used. http://untroubled.org/benchmarking/2004-04/ A bit old but I doubt things have changed much since then. > > A JFS Fsck on the drive takes only a few seconds even after a crash. > > I have created and moved various large files without a problem. I have > also pulled the plug during write intensive operations. > > Just wanted to add another vote for JFS. :) > +1 :-D