[rescue] Filesystem choice for fileserver?

[Joshua Boyd]

On Apr 17, 2008, at 7:38 AM, Timothy Baldridge wrote:

>> I'm very keen on XFS, what with its solid SGI heritage, but I've  
>> read a
>> few horror stories of people who've lost data using it.
>
> And I've heard horror stories about NTFS, ext3, reiserfs, but I've
> never had issues with those either. I've used XFS a fair amount and I
> love it. Rock solid and blazing fast. However, allot of GRUBs don't
> support it, so make your OS partition ext3 and XFS on the data drives.

It seems that swapping one grub for another should be easy.   Just  
drop the new grub files in the proper place in /boot, then run grub- 
install with appropriate arguments.

This assumes that when you say a lot of grubs you don't really mean  
all grubs.