ext4 better then ext3 ! you can install ext4 by yum see: https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#Compatibility 2010/12/23 <cpolish at surewest.net> > Matt wrote: > > Is ext4 stable on CentOS 5.5 64bit? I have an email server with a > > great deal of disk i/o and was wandering if ext4 would be better then > > ext3 for it? > > Before committing to ext4 on a production server, it > would be good to consider the comments made in > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/317781/comments/45 > which presumably still apply to current CentOS 5.5 64-bit kernels. > As I read it, Ts'o argues that the apparent loss of stability > compared to ext3 is a design issue in the realm of applications > that run atop it. I hope this is not a misreading. > -- > Charles Polisher > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101223/293c0462/attachment-0005.html>