Re: Thinking of Oracle Linux

Quoting Russell Coker (russell@coker.com.au):

For reliable data storage on Linux the options are ZFS and BTRFS.

I'm really curious: Are you quite sure those are more reliable than ext4 or ext3 (in their default metadata journaling/write modes)? For performance, especially on very large volumes, there I'm sure you are right, if only on account of excessive fsck times. (I notice you said the machine that handles your mail, which seems to imply modest filesystem size.) However, that was not the criterion you mentioned, but rather reliability. I have laughably little data, but my naive suspicion is that both ext3 and ext4 are significantly more reliable than the other two.