[CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

Tue Jul 5 11:28:06 UTC 2011
James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com>

>>
>> If you're running a database on it, you might re-think using a
>> journaled filesystem. For that, ext2 will be faster and much
>> less prone to unrecoverable data loss.
>
> Did you mean EXT4, or in actual fact EXT2? I thought EXT4 was faster than
> EXT2?
>

The optimum on an EXT basis for a filesystem that does not require
journaling going forwards would be EXT4 with no journal... that way
you get the benefit of extents etc without a journal slowing you
down.... A better option than EXT2 ;)