[CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Sat Dec 5 18:48:56 UTC 2009
Timo Schoeler wrote:
> For enterprise environments my favorite FS is XFS, YMMV, though.
>
I've always avoided XFS because A) it wsan't supported natively in RHEL
anyways, and B) I've heard far too many stories about catastrophic loss
problems and day long FSCK sessions after power failures [1] or what
have you
is B) no longer an issue?
I wanna know how come JFS/JFS2 (originally from IBM) isn't more popular
in the linux world? At least as implemented in AIX, its rock stable,
journaling, excellent performance, and handles both huge files and lots
of tiny files without blinking. jfs2 handles really huge file systems,
too. I really like how, in AIX, the VM and FS tools are coordinated, so
expanding and reorganizing file systems is trivial, nearly as simple as
Sun's ZFS.
[1] replace power failure with unexpected ups event if you prefer.
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