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I'm just curious...what sort of workload are you dealing with that makes XFS a rational choice? It's dramatically less well-tested than ext3, or even ReiserFS, on Linux, and its performance characteristics are not particularly compelling except for a few pretty specific cases.

I have a history of tinkering with odd filesystems, but I wouldn't deploy anything other than ext3 to a production Linux server at this point in time.



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