I'm a bit surprised: everybody's talking about ReiserFS and even IBM's alpha-staged JFS (a lot of promise here, though - sometime, in the future) and XFS has been barely mentioned! I've been using XFS for 8 months now, with nothing but excellent results. I have a test machine, that duplicates *exactly* the hardware/software configuration of the main server and I'm using it to test various alternatives - one of them being other journaling file systems. While my experiences with ReiserFS have been anything from scary to "hmm_not_bad", ext3 offered a *fair* performance and proved to be quite stable. This is what it's intended to be, IMHO. Not the fastest FS around, not the don't_care_about_performance_i'm_just_paranoid_about_data_safety thingie. It's a tradeoff. It's a natural "next evolutionary step" for ye olde ext2 partitions. My favourite, though, continues to be XFS. Superb performance (>20GB daily backup, IDE drives <sad grin>, Postfix (~800 users), MySQL and Apache, sometimes a streaming server (ahem...) started when administrators feel a bit blue ;-), lots of goodies like ACL (if you've been longing for them, here they are) etc, etc. Now why don't I have a SGI Fuel? Nah, just kidding. Who would want that? ;-) -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net
