> 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?