Hi Neil (2007.08.23_21:31:40_+0200) > From your experience, do you feel that XFS has significant performance > advantages over ext3?
Just remember that XFS has a reputation for not handling unexpected power-downs very well. ext2/3 has legendary reliability, and a great armoury of repair tools. Just beware that the mkfs doesn't have very sensible default settings. And you might want to turn off the scheduled fscks. Personally I've been using reiserfs for everything, pretty much since it came out, because of it's performance advantages, and lack of scheduled fscks. In the early days, it was less reliable, but I haven't had any trouble with it for years. Recently, due to the Reiser family troubles, I've switched to ext3 for new installs. Forgetting filesystems for a minute, take note that the best thing you can do for your IO performance is not change to XFS, but to turn off atimes if you possibly can. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://rivera.za.net/ H: +27 21 794 7937 C: +27 72 419 8559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]