On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 17:24:29 +0100, Daniel Watts wrote:
Brent Clark wrote:
Daniel Watts wrote:
Could I possibly have some feedback on what the recommended filesystems are? I've heard of ReiserFS but was wondering what other options there are and how they compare.
Reiser has traditionally been a very good choice for maildir because it has infinite inodes, it is very fast on directories with large numbers of files, and it does sub allocation so small files take less space. And it's very fast. Maildir is the area where Reiser does best.
Thanks for this - I have heared many maildir admins laud Reiser. How is it for ongoing stability and reliability? I suppose with using any non-mainstream technology (ie ext stuff) the admins concern is that it is less well tested for bugs and corruption.
Hi, when i switched from mbox to Maildir half a year ago i wanted to put my "Mail-Partition" on a reiserfs. The migration failed 3 times due to reiserfs-corruption. I don't remember the exact error message, sorry. Admitted, the transition put a heavy load on the fs (~4GB of Mails), still it should have worked. I reformatted the partition with XFS and all problems went away :).
Before that i used and recommended ReiserFS, now i use XFS whenever possible and didn't have problems until now...
Eg i see many people saying xfs is great but who wouldn't think of having it put into production.