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

ext2/3 vs xfs for maildir

2010-01-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
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. If xfs, what is the most appropriate mkfs.xfs command line for creating the filesystem be