ESX 3.5 file system?

Hi... earlier this week, I had a RAID failure, and my whole military machine went down.  I currently work with a data recovery facility to get my VMDK off the disks.  I'm not a VMWare expert, and the recovery people have asked me what kind of ESX 3.5 file system used.  They mentioned XFS... is this correct, or is this something else?  Thanks for your help!

Right hope, trying to recover the data store that has the vmdk? /

the data store are VMFS3 format and the BONES of ESX hypervisor type use the ext3 file system as the hypervisor is linux OS.

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