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king_hippo
We tried ext3 but it was just too slow
Large ext3 partitions can be slow to fsck, but aren't that bad in operation. It's also important to note that the default ext3 mount options are brain-dead for large, heavily-cached systems; for instance, a commit interval of 5 seconds is rather small, and the default 'ordered' writing mode is extremely safe but sometimes a bottleneck.
On the other hand ext3 is
excellent at safety. I've seen ext3 recover from horrible abuse.
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I am not sure if ext4 is any faster or not.
ext4 is somewhat faster but the difference is not gigantic. Its fsck is much faster than ext3's for partitions larger than hundreds of gigs. I don't feel it's quite mature, though. Only time will tell if it's as reliable as ext3.
Another filesystem you might consider is xfs. It's fairly mature, and designed for huge, fast transfers...