[Dovecot] mail spool filesystem
Sven Hartge
sven at svenhartge.de
Thu Aug 18 02:25:09 EEST 2011
Adrian Ulrich <adrian at blinkenlights.ch> 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.
I don't know, but my Courier server (Maildir++ format, 10k users, 12
million mails on server, some users with over 20k mails in one
directory/folder) runs _way_ smoother with XFS. I also tested ext4, but
this was no large gain over ext3 (with dir_index of course).
Grüße,
Sven.
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