[Dovecot] mbox vs maildir
Ralf Hildebrandt
Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de
Fri Jun 29 21:34:48 EEST 2007
* Jesse C. Smillie <jsmillie at gatewayk12.org>:
> The only thing I'm not sure of is what the best file system to keep this
> on. I have been keeping my home directories on ReiserFS for quite a
> while, but one of our tech thinks XFS would be good.
XFS is lousy for many small files. We tried XFS for our 9000 Users
(Maildir) and swithced back to ext3.
> All data I have right now tells me to stay ReiserFS though. Even
> Dovecot's own page says XFS may not be a wise choice.
My experience tells me to stay away from ReiserFS as well.
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