It is my understanding that XFS mechanism do a lot of caching to memory
to achieve good performance. This is a consideration between stability
in the case of catastrophy to performance. 


Regards,
        tzahi.

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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil Freund
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> Subject: VMware GSX host file systems
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am planning on deploying VMware GSX on a Debian system. 
> While I am happy with ReiserFS for most FS needs, I am 
> wondering if it would make sense to user XFS or JFS for the 
> VM image partition, as it seems both perform better with large files.
> 
> On a side note, can anyone share information on performance 
> of the ESX product vs. the GSX product on Linux? Aside from 
> memory over-committing, most ESX functions (such as vMotion) 
> are not relevant to me.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Gil
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