Lotsa-drive cases (was: Re: raid controller recommendation)

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

Jesse Keating wrote:

> as to the ext3, it's just slow.  Disk I/O comparison vs JFS, Reiserfs,
> XFS, and especially ext2 show ext3 to be very slow.

It depends, ext3 is faster than any other FS for database usage.
It supports _three_ kinds of journal("data=journal", "data=ordered",
and "data=writeback"), and it is very _secure_ and _stable_ fs.