I have been running CentOS with the ext3 filesystem and was curious if any provider here has used the ext4 system for shared hosting services and if there were any stability or performance issues that have come up.

Through personal testing, the file system checks have been considerably faster but I have been unable or more unwilling to run full websites without knowing major issues that people have experienced.

Any input would be wonderful. Thanks.

Boris A Dolgov replied: Hello,

I am using ext4 on Fedora for nearly a year; everything seems OK to me.
I can’t say that performance has notably changed after ext3.

techjr replied: Thanks for the input. If you have ever had to do a fsck would you mind providing an estimate on how long it took or has this never come up?

Boris A Dolgov replied: I am using a lot of small partitions (nearly 20-30GB), so fsck never took a long time.
But fsck time is very easy to measure — you can rsync your current server to a new ext4 partition and do a forced fsck on it.

DeltaAnime replied: We’re running our only cPanel box on CentOS 6 & EXT4 without issue

Francisco

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