[Dovecot] Recommended FS for Dovecot Maildir

Udo Rader udo.rader at bestsolution.at
Sat May 6 13:56:39 EEST 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 17:23 -0500, Richard Laager wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 22:39 +0200, Udo Rader wrote:
> > three or four years ago we had a major reiserfs corruption due to faulty
> > memory modules (as I know now). The result was a completely unusable and
> > unrepairable partition that could eventually, after two weeks or so, be
> > repaired with the help of Hans Reiser himself. Even though I really
> > appreciated direct involvement of the main developer, I will avoid it by
> > any means.
> 
> Not that I really care what you use, but don't you think it's a bit
> illogical to avoid a filesystem based on problems you know were caused
> by faulty hardware? Just how is the filesystem supposed to avoid
> problems from bad RAM?

Yes, you are right, the cause for this incident was faulty memory and I
don't blame reiserfs for failing due to this. But the effect was a
unrepairable filesystem and that again was a problem with the repair
tools available then. And that definetively left a bad after taste for
me.

It may be pure coincidence, but I never experienced anything equally
desastrous with any other FS (knocking on wood right now :-).

Udo Rader

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