On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:51:23 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Which filesystem is more appropriate for maildir use on a >> Postfix/Dovecot system, ext2/3 or xfs? This maildir will be storing >> mulitple mail folders and files, some folders containing over 10,000 >> email files. > > How about ReiserFS? > > Despite not being very much actively developed upstream, it is still a > very good filesystem, mainly for managing small files.
I strongly agree, even in recent ext4 and nilfs benchmarks, reiserfs is generally the winner in many different scenarious. Besides, XFS is very disappointing at power failures and ext2/3 requires huge amounts of rescan time during boot after an unexpected reboot. Regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
