[CentOS] XFS or EXT3 ?

Am 03.12.2010 13:55, schrieb Keith Roberts:
> There was a similar thread about which is the best FS for
> Centos.
>
> I'm using ext3, and wondered if XFS would be more 'data
> safe' than ext3.
>
> I had a 100GiB ext3 partition, and it took up 1.75GiB for FS
> administration purposes. I reformatted it to XFS, and it
> only used 50.8MB!

Just yesterday we had the case of hitting ext3 limits - a folder can 
only contain 32k subfolders. So I had to create a XFS container, to hold 
the amount of data.

Rainer