Hi,
I have > 11 TB hard used Mailstorage, saved als maildir in ext3 on HP EVA.
I always wanted to make some mesurements about several influences to the performance (switch to ext4, switch to mdbox), but I never had enough time to do that.
At the moment I *need* more speed, we have too much waitI/O on the system and I already used all other performance and tuning-tricks (separated cache, noatime, fsync and all that stuff).
I have to change my setup, maybe somebody else here have hard facts:
*) Is ext4 faster? How much faster? *) Is it faster because of the ext4 kernel-module (which can be used on ext3 to) or because of the ext4 filesystem layout?
*) Is mdbox really faster? I'd like to have mdbox to have better performance in running my backup-processes. But does it bring some performance boosts to?
Thanks for any hints an tricks,
Peer
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