On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 20:34 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
- Jesse C. Smillie jsmillie@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.
How about NSS? I was considering using Netware's NSS for my backend server - either from Netware or Linux OES, but I'm not sure how OES actually handles the filesystem.. Anyways, in addition to journaling, you get deleted file salvage, open file backup/snapshot, and easily expandable volumes... I know you can do the last with LVM on Linux, and I recall something similar on FreeBSD - but I have no experience with either, and they're both missing salvage and snapshot.
Ok ok, so I really just love salvage. ;)