[Dovecot] XFS vs EXT4 for mail storage

[Stan Hoeppner]

On 5/3/2013 12:14 AM, Michael Weissenbacher wrote:
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> last quesion, stay with the defaults when doing mkfs.xfs, optimizing for
> stripe width and stipe size and all those other options really only make
> sense on a physical machine.

The potential benefit of alignment is always workload dependent.  If the
hypervisor passes correct RAID geometry to the VM guest and the workload
can benefit from alignment, then you want alignment in the VM filesystem
just as much as on bare metal.

-- 
Stan