On Tuesday, July 05, 2011 07:28 PM, James Hogarth wrote: >>> >>> 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 ;) Test, test, and test again for your own particular case.