[Dovecot] Maildirs++ on ext4

[Marc Perkel]

Rodolfo Gonzalez Gonzalez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> happy after migrating from Courier to Dovecot without major issues, 
> and saving 3 Gb of RAM after the migration, now I'm going to move 
> everything to a 5 Tb RAID6 array. There's another thread on SATA and 
> cluster fs, but for now I'm looking for the best filesystem in your 
> experience. Currently I use Reiser, but I'd like to know if someone 
> has worked with ext4 and Dovecot's maildir++.
>
> Thanks.
>
> P.S. I have UPS and generator, but my RAID card doesn't have backup 
> battery.

For what it's worth considering that hard drives are cheap I prefer raid 
10. It's simple, fast, works well, and you do waste 1/2 of the drive 
space but so what.