I know that XFS gets all the press about being a great performing file system ... but if you want the best stability on CentOS, you should at least consider ext3 instead.
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I have worked very hard to get stable code for xfs in centos-4 and centos-5, and lots of people use it, but (IMHO) ext3 is still much more stable with the CentOS Kernels. That is my $0.02 ... I'm sure other people will tell you I am all hosed up :D
I will be telling them wait for a power loss, wait for the XFS code to shut down one of its filesystem for no reason, take a good look at the neverending stream of bug fixes in the mainline kernel, take a look at those kernel developers who have openly announced they want nothing to do with the XFS codebase and to note the fact that the XFS code is the largest there is for a filesystem due to all the workarounds they have had to put into to deal with Linux's different vm and other stuff.
There is a reason why XFS is not that stable but it sure is the fastest there is for writes.
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