John R Pierce wrote:
of course, XFS can also fail spectacularly. ext3fs fully journals all metadata updates. I'm sure this is a major portion of the performance differences on writes.
Actually, I've used XFS since the days it was released as a port to Linux (and even before that, on Irix, but that's besides the point). I'm aware it's more fragile than Ext3 - in fact, someone here at the office made an XFS partition yesterday to do some tests, there was a power outage last night, and today that partition is corrupted.
I'll use battery backups (duh) and only put on XFS the stuff that needs good performance, but can be rebuilt from the master data in case something ugly happens. Like pretty much anything in life, it's a trade-off.
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