On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Bhargav Prasanna
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I bought a new 1.5TB hard-drive. I am still not sure at risking my huge data
>> with ext4 at this stage. Any suggestions? Should I go for ext3 or ext4?
>>
>
> ext3.. tested and proven.. =)
>
I have come across cases where in case of a major ext3 filesystem
corruption corruption, fsck would take days ( 1.5 TB took about 5 days
, 5 TB took 21 days ) to complete . This is one of the major drawbacks
of ext3 on huge filesystem which scale in TB's . XFS and ext4 would
perform much better in such cases . Also I think it would be worth
mentioning that Red Hat has introduced ext4 as a Tech Preview in
RHEL5.4 :
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Release_Notes/Filesystems.html
Regards
Preetish
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