[Dovecot] Best filesystem?

Nick Edwards nick.z.edwards at gmail.com
Sat Jan 29 05:47:02 EET 2011


On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Monika Janek <mjanek at sidefx.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone! What's the best filesystem to use for the mail spool? I'm
> debating between Debian with xfs or FreeBSD with zfs. I'm not sure which
> way to go. I'm migrating from cyrus. I have about 50 users so it's not a
> large setup.
>
> Cheers!
> Monika
>
> -


xfs is not very nice to you if you lose power, it's not as bad as it used to
be, but it still gives you 0 byte files, so make sure you have a good UPS to
issue a safe shutdown of the server, if you do, xfs is better, using CentOS.


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