On to filesystems. I saw some commentary by Arjan on the RHEL4 beta
list
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/nahant-beta-list
suggesting that there is no good, known reason to use XFS in RHEL4
(and presumably FC3?), because ext3 has been patched to provide
significantly better performance, and online resize of ext3 is being
actively worked on. Indeed those are the two obvious issues that I
care about, so I'm considering going with ext3 rather than XFS.
Can anyone think of a reason to use XFS over ext3, even with the
improvements that Arjan mentioned? Maybe XFS scales better still, or
provides a significant advantage in filesystem size on 64-bit
architectures, compared to ext3?