filesystem for mail

[Jorge Almeida]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Bill Campbell wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 16, 2006, Ben Duncan wrote:
>> Doing this very same thing now and it seems EXT3 is Just fine
>> for COurier IMAP ...
>
Forgot to mention that I have dovecot as IMAP server (and qmail as MTA).
> While ext3 is certainly OK, it may well require a time consuming
> fsck when the machine is rebooted.
>
Would you say that is the only problem? The box doesn't reboot too
often, and it only does fsck after so many reboots or so many days.
> 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.
>
I choosed reiserfs over XFS because the gentoo docs seemed somewhat
unenthusiastic about XFS (don't know why, but I thought an end-user like
me shouldn't take unnecessary risks). 
> 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.
>
If you can still recall under which circumstances it happened, could you
elaborate a little on that?


Thanks.
-- 
Jorge Almeida