Thank you very much for the input, I think I will go with xfs . what do you think about xfs ? *Amit K Nepal Infrastructure Engineer (RHCE) omNovia Technologies Inc. * On 4/16/2013 9:56 AM, Matt Graham wrote: > From: Amit Nepal >> I am thinking to use reiserfs in one of my storage servers. I have not >> used reiserfs before and I am wondering how reliable it is. Any one have >> any experience with the reliability of reiserfs? > I used it on my home machine for a few years. No problems, modulo a totally > unrelated kernel bug eating part of my / . reiserfsck --rebuild-tree got > everything back. > >> it seems to be good for faster access > I saw no measurable difference in wall-clock performance between ext3 and > reiserfs. I didn't do insane amounts of benchmarking, though. (There are 5 > species of mendacity, each worse than the last: Lies, damned lies, > statistics, benchmarks, and vendor promises.) The main thing I got from the > community was that certain kinds of failures will totally hose your filesystem > if it's reiserfs and be at least partially recoverable if it's ext3. >