Re: Cyrus IMAP running in linux: recommended file system

2010-12-17 Thread Andre Felipe Machado
Hello, In addition to my last message, you could test performance using the Allocation Group size = 4GB, your users' email quota. As XFS deals with AG as something like filesystems inside the filesystem, the account activity will be contained at that AG, during parallel iops. As each AG implies a

Re: Cyrus IMAP running in linux: recommended file system

2010-12-17 Thread Andre Felipe Machado
Hello, We used ext3 for years at cyrus servers (even tuned them a lot [0]), then changed to XFS **aggressively tuned for small files** [0] and are being happy with it. But we are using plenty ram and cores servers and tuned SAN FC storage and now even a tuned custom WAFL SAN FC storage, with lvm. A