[Dovecot] Best filesystem?

[Nick Edwards]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Stan Hoeppner <stan at hardwarefreak.com>wrote:

> Nick Edwards put forth on 1/28/2011 9:47 PM:
>
> > xfs is not very nice to you if you lose power, it's not as bad as it used
> to
> > be, but it still gives you 0 byte files, so make sure you have a good UPS
> to
> > issue a safe shutdown of the server, if you do, xfs is better, using
> CentOS.
>
>


> It would be nice if you spoke from experience or documentation instead of
> rumor.
>


I do speak from experience, it is also a /very/ well known fact, for someone
who rants on and on and on with self justification, you sure don't actually
know a lot do you.

Not that it is any of anyones business but we operated XFS years before we
moved to a dedicated hardware NFS server, because we too did not think it
could be as bad as we had heard, but it was, and at that time we housed our
equipment off-site, so were dependent upon the colos UPS and generators
which failed often enough for us to see the mess it causes, now days, we
host in-house and wont ever outsource hosting again, if it fails now, we do
only have ourselves to blame, luckily, we have had perfect uptime since that
move and never needed snapshots to recover.



>  I've been using XFS on Postfix/Dovecot servers for quite some time and
> have had
> power loss on at least 2 occasions with zero data loss or FS corruption.
>  What
> you state is factually incorrect.  Stop spreading XFS FUD please, Nick.
>
>
BS, how many users do you have? How busy are your servers?  obviously not
much of either I'd say based on what you claim on this list, until you have
real world experience, that means greater than the pewny userbase you have,
please do not sprout what you think as being gospel, you only make yourself
look like an ever bigger ranting fool.

Here's another hint, never believe everything you read on wikipedia or
Google, so much of it is from people who have less of a clue than you.

 Timo moderated some other clown last week, it is a pitty he did not
moderate a few others, I have seen so much rubbish from you, and your 555
pages of ranting replies trying to blind those who have not woken up to you
yet, it is astounding. Wietse put you in your place on postfix list late
last year about ranting on about stuff you have no idea about, but you
clearly did not learn a thing from that at all either.

People like yourself, are in the category of "a little information in the
hands of some can be very, very dangerous" for newbies.


nick