Slower performance with ext4

[James Michael Fultz]

* Mark Kirkwood <markir at paradise.net.nz> [2009-11-02 20:19 +1300]:
> Christopher Chan wrote:
[claims of mailspool corruption on XFS]
> 
> You were running this on server grade hardware? or - let me guess - a 
> workstation with cheap sata drives? I have run many instances of mysql, 
> postgres and oracle on *server* grade hardware [1] with xfs for probably 
> the last 7 years and never have *any* data corruption issue in spite of 
> many power outages...

While the difference in application and work loads matters too, I've
been running XFS on my desktop computers built from consumer-grader
hadware for years without data loss despite unclean shutdowns due to
power outtages.

But don't take my word for it, XFS has been fixed.

<http://sandeen.net/wordpress/?p=17>