[CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

[Lucian]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Alain Péan
<alain.pean at lpp.polytechnique.fr> wrote:
> Le 24/06/2011 03:44, Marian Marinov a écrit :
>> On Friday 24 June 2011 04:34:20 Smithies, Russell wrote:
>>> We have a single 27TB partition (35 x 1TB drives as RAID5+0 in an HP
>>> MDS600), just formatted it xfs and had no problems with it so far. It's
>>> used as scratch space so not too concerned about performance.
>>>
>>> --Russell
>>>
>> I have compared the performance of both XFS and Ext4. And since I use those
>> big machines for backups, for me the write performance was very important.
>> XFS was almost twice slower.
>>
>> But lets leave XFS alone :) Ext4 is the way to go :)
>>
>> Marian
>
> I am using XFS on an HPC cluster, one single partition of 14 TB, with no
> problem so far.
>
> See this news on Phoronix. XFS is becoming cleaner and leaner. I am
> happy to use ext4 instead of ext3 on usual partitions, but XFS on big
> partitions seems to me still a good choice. Let's see what happens in
> the future.
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTU4OA
>
> Alain

Btrfs happens in the future. :-)