[Dovecot] linux 2.4 vs 2.6 kernel

Dan Hollis test3943395 at anime.net
Tue Jul 19 23:00:04 EEST 2005


On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Peter Hessler wrote:
> Why would you even consider a filesystem that corrupts files randomly?
> Not trolling, its a serious question.

This was our experience with ext3. We switched to reiserfs. No more corruption.
Not just a few servers either. Just a data point or two (or forty).

Our experience with XFS was pretty disturbing too, but that was many years 
ago. It might have gotten better since. Once bitten twice shy though.

-Dan



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