[CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

Thu Jun 23 21:25:26 UTC 2011
Thomas Harold <thomas-lists at nybeta.com>

On 6/23/2011 12:16 PM, PJ wrote:
> I'm sure many are running ext4 FS's in production, but just want to be
> re-assured that there are not currently any major issues before
> starting a new project that looks like it will be using ext4.
>
> I've previously been using xfs but the software for this project
> requires ext3/ext4.
>
> I'm always very cautious before jumping onto a new FS, (new in the
> sense it is officially supported now)
>

Works fine here.  I think you would have been jumping the gun if you 
were asking this in 2009, but by now it's well understood and the tools 
are fine in 2011.  It's been around long enough.

I use it anywhere that I have multi-gigabyte files that need to be 
handled with speed (deleting large files on ext3 is an exercise in 
patience) or where I have lots and lots of little files (which ext3 
sometimes had trouble with).