[CentOS] XFS and LVM2 (possibly in the scenario of snapshots)

[Christopher Chan]

> Thanks for your eMail, Ross. So, reading all the stuff here I'm really 
> concerned about moving all our data to such a system. The reason we're 
> moving is mainly, but not only the longisch fsck UFS (FreeBSD) needs 
> after a crash. XFS seemed to me to fit perfectly as I never had issues 
> with fsck here. However, this discussion seems to change my mindset. So, 
> what would be an alternative (if possible not using hardware RAID 
> controllers, as already mentioned)? ext3 is not, here we have long fsck 
> runs, too. Even ext4 seems not too good in this area...

I thought 3ware would have been good. Their cards have been praised for 
quite some time...have things changed? What about Adaptec?