Richard Hobbs wrote:

Trouble is... i've been googling this as well, just now, and loads of people say XFS has the better performance, but loads of other people say ReiserFS has the better performance.

It starts to become a religious argument at some point.

We have battery backed up RAID controllers too, in this new system, and the systems are UPSd, so on that basis i'm still none the wiser! lol

I appreciate your experience with XFS is a positive one, but even the dovecot web site says XFS might now be a good choice...

http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir

What a tough decision! I know it probably won't make too much difference in my situation, but i want this to be a very long-term solution, so want to do it right first time!

Any other opinions on XFS vs Reiserfs with Dovecot maildir?

Thanks again!

Richard.

If you have time to play "tweak the filesystem":

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1479435

It's a good comparison of etx3, xfs, and reiser from a performance standpoint. Also try this if you want to pull the plug or randomly reboot and see what happens:

http://brad.livejournal.com/2116715.html

~Seth