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XFS on a Web Server?

Posted by Cliff on from the how-well-would-it-work dept.

WWYD asks: "I am going to be setting up a fresh web server for the company I work for and am looking for some advise. It will be a Redhat 7.3 / Apache / PHP standard everyday setup that will be hosting 50+ radio station sites. My question is about SGI's XFS file system. I've been running it at home and love the recovery time after the system dies. (I experiment a lot). Would XFS be a good filesystem for a web server?"

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  1. Why not use ext3? by g4dget · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Ext3 is the default on several installations and it's tremendously easy to install. You can convert ext2 partitions to ext3 on the fly by just creating a journal. If you want to turn off journalling for some reason, you can do that, too, since an ext3 partition remains backwards compatible with ext2. And you actually get a choice between three different kinds of consistency.

    ReiserFS would be my second choice: it isn't compatible with anything, but it brings some nice, new functionality to the table.

    XFS is unlikely to be as well tested or tuned as either of these others on Linux.