We've been running our ~1200 user server on reiserfs/RedHat for 2 years or so now with no filesystem problems. In fact everyone I know that uses linux for any purpose uses reiser as their standard fs. It's been fast and reliable for us.
We'll be migrating to a new box running 2.2.2 on Gentoo with reiser in couple of months.
-David
--On Friday, January 9, 2004 3:46 PM +0000 mb <mb/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 switched my IMAP store from Debian to Fedora Core on December 26th--it's now ready for Linux 2.6 as soon as someone (other than myself) says it's too slow..
HTH,
Matt
PS I know some people say XFS, JFS etc are brilliant but my local experience is that although they may be faster in Linux 2.4, they are more prone to corruption.. (haven't tried either in the last 6 months tho')
