-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 x64 From: compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> To: 'CentOS mailing list' <centos at centos.org> Date: Thursday, January 27, 2011 10:08:46 AM >> For those of you that have been using the ext4 technology preview on CentOS > 5.5, how has it panned out? Does it perform as expected? How do you feel the > stability, creation of the FS and the administration of it is? Ideas and > comments welcome. > > > I've recently been using ext4 because I have servers with large(ish) storage > volumes, and because I know that the next version of centos will support it > better than 5.5. > > I only use it for storage, where I use rsync to copy terabytes of data to > and from the servers. > > It works fine - it's been set and forget so far. Very fast read/write > speeds. I've been using it for the same purpose on a volume that is ~2.4TB, rsyncing a few 100's of GB/day. Works better than tape. No issues so far (maybe 6 months or so).