Jesse Keating wrote: > as to the ext3, it's just slow. Disk I/O comparison vs JFS, Reiserfs, > XFS, and especially ext2 show ext3 to be very slow. It depends, ext3 is faster than any other FS for database usage. It supports _three_ kinds of journal("data=journal", "data=ordered", and "data=writeback"), and it is very _secure_ and _stable_ fs.