After perusing the last year's archives I see little consensus about filesystems other than an agreement that the easy, safe thing to do is use ext3. We can't use that on a file server; we have absolute requirements of more than 32K directory entries at one level in a directory. This is required by certain applications we use; there's no way around it. Our tier 1 filer (NetApp) has no limits on directory entries. But we need to migrate older projects to tier 2 (cheap) storage. These projects have directories that ext{2,3} can't handle. BUT... it's not clear to me how safe or easy it is to use XFS, JFS or ResierFS. (I know Michael Mansour gave up on XFS.) So I would love to hear from any of you who have been using another FS for, say, at least three months. Which one, what did you do to make it work, how well does it work? I am interested in both good and bad experiences. Thanks. I thought I had brought this up here before, but didn't see it in my email archives. -Miles