Is ext4 stable on CentOS 5.5 64bit? I have an email server with a great deal of disk i/o and was wandering if ext4 would be better then ext3 for it?
Yes, We use it for 4 months on our backup server, we no issue at the moment. We have a lot of files, ext4 increase the backup speed. The backup time is now 3hours, and was 5 hours with ext3. Le 21/12/2010 21:22, Matt a ?crit :> Is ext4 stable on CentOS 5.5 64bit? I have an email server with a > great deal of disk i/o and was wandering if ext4 would be better then > ext3 for it? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Matt wrote:> Is ext4 stable on CentOS 5.5 64bit? I have an email server with a > great deal of disk i/o and was wandering if ext4 would be better then > ext3 for it?Before committing to ext4 on a production server, it would be good to consider the comments made in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/317781/comments/45 which presumably still apply to current CentOS 5.5 64-bit kernels. As I read it, Ts'o argues that the apparent loss of stability compared to ext3 is a design issue in the realm of applications that run atop it. I hope this is not a misreading. -- Charles Polisher