Re: ext2/3 vs xfs for maildir

2010-01-22 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 09:51:23AM -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. I'd recommend XFS

Re: ext2/3 vs xfs for maildir

2010-01-02 Thread Chris Davies
Volkan YAZICI wrote: > [...] ext2/3 requires huge amounts of rescan time during boot after > an unexpected reboot. Isn't the journal supposed to protect against this? IMO I don't see particularly long rescan times on the large-ish filesystem that I have (800 GB ext3 on lvm on top of hardware raid

Re: ext2/3 vs xfs for maildir

2010-01-01 Thread Robert Brockway
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, 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. I'm a big fan of XFS and have successfully u

Re: ext2/3 vs xfs for maildir

2010-01-01 Thread Robert Brockway
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Volkan YAZICI wrote: 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 There are reasons for the observed XFS be

Re: ext2/3 vs xfs for maildir

2010-01-01 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Camaleón 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 10,0

Re: ext2/3 vs xfs for maildir

2010-01-01 Thread Camaleón
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? D