28 Feb
2010
28 Feb
'10
11:58 a.m.
Terry Barnum put forth on 2/27/2010 8:33 PM:
Thank you Stan. Unfortunately I read that Apple ran into licensing issues with Sun/Oracle over ZFS and removed it from Snow Leopard before it was released last year.
If your new hardware is fast enough (disk access time + throughput) HFS+ may not be a bottleneck. However, I fear that given what you said about multiple maildirs with 5K+ messages, and very large messages, HFS+ will be far less than optimal.
As I mentioned before, if you are able to go with Linux and XFS you'd be far better off WRT these large maildirs. Maybe some comparative testing is in order.
-- Stan