Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:46:00PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > >> Ray Van Dolson wrote: >> >>> Hi folks... trying to pick between jfs and xfs for a filesystem. In >>> the past we've used jfs with CentOS + centosplus, however, ... >>> >> CentOS and its upstream source, RHEL, support ex3fs. I'm not sure why >> you'd want to use anything else. If you have a specific requirement for >> JFS, I'd suggest running a BSD or AIX system where JFS is native... If you >> need XFS, I'd run a Linux distribution that supports it natively. >> >> If you roll your own hybrid operating system, you get to test and validate >> it, and if it breaks, you get to keep both pieces. >> > > Thanks for the reply John. However, my question wasn't so much "if I > should" but how the xfs support in CentOS compares to jfs. It seems to > me that xfs is a bit more up-to-date. > > If you'd like, consider the question academic vs giving me a > recommendation that pushes me down the path of unsupported filesystem > doom. :-) > > I've been using XFS on centos for a couple of years with no problems. Only minor annoyance was when the kmod for new kernels was slow to appear, but thats not a problem any more due to the non kernel version dependant kmods. Dunc