On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:46:04PM +0000, mb wrote: > At 17:54 +0530 Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: > > >I am having around 2000 users on my cyrus server ( redhat 9.0 ) > >someone told be I should reformat my partition in Reiserfs rather that > >ext3 and I will get a great perlformance improvement > > ..until you get a hardware failure and your entire mail store is toast. > > reiserfs is brilliant for some applications (Squid boxes, desktops..), but > ext3 is reliable (the best fsck in town alone makes it worth it), and for > your mail server that is surely the most important thing. If you want to > speed up ext3 look at Linux 2.6.
I can concurr. A year ago a box that I looked after had a hardware failure (low voltage in the PSU), things started to go wrong with the reiser file system - I eventually recovered, but many files had a byte of cr*p at their start and were missing a byte at the end. -- Alain Williams #include <std_disclaimer.h> FATHERS-4-JUSTICE - Campaigning for equal rights for parents and the best interests of our children. See http://www.fathers-4-justice.org
