[CentOS] ext4 or XFS

Wed Jan 12 01:17:46 UTC 2011
Digimer <linux at alteeve.com>

On 01/11/2011 08:00 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 08:51 AM, compdoc wrote:
>>>> Lots of protection for your data? Let's see, super aggressive caching and
>> no data journaling only metadata journaling, what on earth are you
>> blabbering about?
>>
>>>> Use XFS with anything that has no BBU cache support or barrier support and
>> recent files are toast when there is a crash or sudden power failure.
>>
>>>> Nah, XFS has historically been the fastest at writing and also the most
>> dangerous filesystem available on Linux.
>>
>>
>> You're right, I was thinking of zfs. Which does cut write speeds in half...
>>
> 
> Huh? There you go blabbering again. There is no native ZFS for Linux nor 
> will there ever be unless there is a license change.

Your points may be valid, but their delivery could be more polite. :)

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