[CentOS] ext4 or XFS

Wed Jan 12 01:41:44 UTC 2011
aurfalien at gmail.com <aurfalien at gmail.com>

On Jan 11, 2011, at 5:17 PM, Digimer wrote:

> 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. :)

I'm actually enjoying the spirited discussion.

- aurf