Reply #5: XFS [View All]

My experience with XFS has been absolutely excellent on SGI hardware with IRIX, incredible i/o, great tools, definately an enterprise class fs. I put together a slack based file server for my friend's pro tools studio, to serve the A and B rooms - and even though linux is by no means as powerful as IRIX when it comes to i/o, its handled itself very nicely. If it weren't for some bad nic's and network collisions a few weeks into the server's life, it would still be up without a crash since day 1. It works great with raid-5 btw. XFS is perfect for huge (1 gb or more) files - audio and video for example, which of course is what sgi designed it for. imo its the only fs to run for mission critical situations if you're using linux. its a shame redhat keeps promoting ext3 as a comparable solution.