[Dovecot] Directory Layout Performance

[Charles Marcus]

On 7/2/2009, tomas at tuxteam.de (tomas at tuxteam.de) wrote:
>> If you based your decision of what filesystem to use on whether or not
>> there have ever been any serious problems encountered with it, you
>> wouldn't have a computer.

> No. I base my assessment on other people's experiences.

I said, '... any serious problems encountered with it'... by *anyone*,
not just you... so this includes other peoples experiences.

> One of the real downsides or Reiser at the moment seems to be that it
> is more prone to silent corruption (triggered by hardware problems).

All filesystems are prone to this problem... hardware problems can cause
all kinds of nasty things to happen, many of them 'silently'.

I am *not* saying reiserfs is perfect - no fs is... I'm just saying that
there are *plenty* of people who have had just as serious problems with
ext3, xfs, and every other filesystem out there.

The fact is, reiserfs performance is awesome for mail servers
(especially IMAP servers), and has been rock solid for me for as long as
I've been using it...

> I don't have the time now to provide references, but if interested,
> I'll dig it up (maybe it's time to take this off-list anyway :)

Not necessary, I'm fully aware of them.

All that said, I'll probably be migrating my next systems to either ext4
or brtfs, depending on *when*... I wish zfs was gpl so it could make it
into the linux kernel. Heck, I've been considering trying out FreeBSD
for that one reason...

But you're right, this is way OT now, and I don't have time to carry it
on privately... good luck (to you and everyone) with whatever fs you
choose...

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Best regards,

Charles