Re: [Xen-users] Xen domU filesystem best-practices question

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Bachtel wrote:
> For file-backed disk images used for domUs, what is the current
> best-practice filesystem to use? That is, the filesystem with the
> fewest edge cases and failure modes.
>
> I was told (6 months back or so), to absolutely not use a journalled
> filesystem on a file-backed image, and so I started moving to ext2. Is
> this advice still pertinent, or would a journalled filesystem now be
> better (XFS or ext3, for instance).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>   
I've been using ext3 with little trouble. Ext3 has the advantage of 
coping, successfully, with 50,000 files in one directory without 
hiccup-ing, which ext2 always had trouble with.
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