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