[Dovecot] XFS vs EXT4 for mail storage

[Charles Marcus]

On 2013-05-02 4:18 PM, lst_hoe02 at kwsoft.de <lst_hoe02 at kwsoft.de> wrote:
> For ESXi with its own filesystem (vmfs) it still shouldn't matter that 
> much. As said the basic task of the Hypervisor is to abstract the 
> hardware used, so no chance for the guest OS to really optimize for 
> the hardware used. Maybe its time for a generic Hypervisor guest fs...

Interesting idea, but way over my head as far as whether or not it is 
accurate... ;)

One thing I'm still unsure of is the whole issue of things being sync'd 
to disk, and which options for xfs (or ext4) are 'safest' for the 
virtualized environment...

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Best regards,

Charles