[Dovecot] linux 2.4 vs 2.6 kernel

[Chris Wakelin]

I'm at the once bitten stage with Reiserfs, unless someone knows how to 
deal with bad blocks short of 'dd'-ing to another disk and back - the 
disk won't remap the bad sectors unless you try to write to them and its 
not trivial to find out how! Having said that, SuSE uses it as the 
default, so we've gone with that on our SuSE installs so far.

Anybody tried Veritas Filesystem on Solaris for IMAP (even better, 
Dovecot) access? Is it significantly better than Solaris UFS? I'd heard 
that UFS performs terribly for Maildir.

Chris

Todd Burroughs wrote:
> We use Reiserfs 3 on over a thousand servers and I've only lost one.
> That one was caused by us unplugging it on purpose to test the filesystem.
> It made it through a couple tests, then got messed up and I managed
> to get it partially back.  We tried ext3 (this is ~3 years ago though)
> and found it not very stable.
> 
> I can't comment on speed with a large number of files, as we use NFS
> for data storage, but I find that Reiser's pretty stable.  Mostly we're
> using 2.4 kernels.
> 
> Todd

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