[Dovecot] mail spool filesystem

Kelsey Cummings kgc at corp.sonic.net
Wed Aug 31 23:13:27 EEST 2011


On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 03:48:00AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 8/17/2011 9:42 AM, Adrian Ulrich wrote:
> >> I read that XFS is a good choice, but is not 
> >> too reliable...
> > 
> > Are you using Maildir or MBOX?
> > 
> > In any case: XFS would be my last choice:
> > 
> > XFS is nice if you are working with large files (> 2GB), but
> > for E-Mail i'd stick with ext3 (or maybe even reiser3)
> > as it works very well with small files.
> 
> XFS was designed for parallelism, whether with large files or small,
...

Anyone been using ZFS on FreeBSD for mail spool storage?

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