[Dovecot] Recommended FS for Dovecot Maildir

Marc Perkel marc at perkel.com
Fri May 5 18:44:51 EEST 2006



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.


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