Thanks Timo I'll go read that... On 3/21/10, Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler at riscworks.net> wrote: > On 03/21/2010 04:01 PM, Tom Bishop wrote: >> Lots of opinions out there and I have read and read, so I have a home >> server that I have finally setup with a hot swap hdd cage and what I am >> planning on doing is copying my data drive every other day and rotating >> them offsite, haven't figured out how often though. So I did my first >> test last night and the backup drive was formatted with ext3 but looking >> to try to speed things up and was wondering what would be my best >> choice. Most of my data is on VM's and the hdd files on some of them >> are quite large, I have used JFS and reiser in the past and was leaning >> on going with JFS but am tempted to look at XFS. So what I was >> wondering are what are folks experiences (instead of opinions) with >> different filesystems and while I want speed it needs to be reliable >> since it will be my back up data....running centos 5.4 x64 >> >> >> Thanks in advance... > > Hi, > > in December last year there was a nice thread about choosing the 'right' > FS for certain circumstances, which included JFS, XFS, ext3/4 etc. > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-December/086842.html > > HTH, > > Timo > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >