Re: ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

[Christopher Chan <christopher.chan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
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