Thanks to all of you for your replies. In the history of my site, we've gone through 4 filesystems: initially, we were ext2, then ext3, then ReiserFS 3.6, and finally XFS. Each of these were chosen for a reason (ext3 because we needed journaling, ReiserFS because we needed higher performance for lots of small files, XFS because we couldn't eat ReiserFS's bad unlink performance). XFS has, in general, been pretty good to us. However, given that we've seen some "odd" behavior with it on 32bit, and given that SGI doesn't appear to be maintaining XFS much anymore, I believe we will be switching to something else. I'm not sure exactly what, yet, but it appears that XFS isn't a good choice anymore. M
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