Is ext4 ready for a production usage ?

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Published on 2009-06-15T16:17:33Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 22:21 UTC
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Hi

What do you think about ext4 filesystem in the production enviroment ? We are very close to launching our project that will use tens of millions quite often updated not very big files and we need to decide which FS to use.

For a while our considerations about other linux FS are:

Ext3 is rock stable, but not very well suited for handling millions small files
XFS looks very nice, probably we'll use it
ReiserFS ... well...vague future, who will end up fixing bugs ?

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