filesystem for mail

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006, Ben Duncan wrote:
>Doing this very same thing now and it seems EXT3 is Just fine
>for COurier IMAP ...

While ext3 is certainly OK, it may well require a time consuming
fsck when the machine is rebooted.

We've been using XFS with courier-imap with more than 7,500 users
at a fairly busy ISP site.  The /home file system on this machine
has 2,620,609 inodes used out of 9,781,248 on an 80GB file system.

Performance isn't a problem either, processing about a half-million
incoming messages a day, all deliveries being done by a cluster
of servers with the user's home directories NFS mounted.

We don't use reiserfs as I've had it eat file systems far too
frequently for my liking.

Bill
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