[CentOS] ext4 or XFS

compdoc compdoc at hotrodpc.com
Wed Jan 12 00:51:49 UTC 2011


>>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...






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