[Dovecot] Recommended FS for Dovecot Maildir

Ben bench at silentmedia.com
Sun May 7 22:52:20 EEST 2006


Certainly, but my completely anecdotal experience is that I've seen  
lots of people complain about bad memory causing corruption on their  
reiser partitions, while far less people complain about the same  
problem with other file systems. I'm not saying reiser is inherently  
fragile, but it's a suspicious correlation.

If reiser *wasn't* fragile, I'd expect to see more people complaining  
how bad memory corrupted their ext3/xfs/whatever partition.

On May 7, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Charles Marcus wrote:

>> Yes, you are right, the cause for this incident was faulty memory  
>> and I
>> don't blame reiserfs for failing due to this. But the effect was a
>> unrepairable filesystem and that again was a problem with the repair
>> tools available then.
>
> Not necessarily... faulty memory could cause corruption that NO  
> file system repair tools could repair.
>
> -- 
>
> Best regards,
>
> Charles



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