filesystem for mail

[Jorge Almeida]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Michael Hipp wrote:

> I started using xfs on all my servers about 2 years ago. During the
> following 1.5 years I had 3 cases where xfs became corrupt and the
> system failed. All 3 cases were ones of power outage where the UPS
> eventually cut off and the system didn't shut down clean. In 2 of the 3
> cases after a long afternoon of xfs_check and xfs_repair the system was
> back working fine. In the 3rd, the corruption was evidently too severe
> to be repairable and the system had to be rebuilt from scratch.
>
> So from all that I concluded, facetiously, that xfs isn't really a
> journaled file system. What's the point of journaling if not to protect
> you from things like power failures.
>
> I've never had these problems when using ext3. It's firmly in the "just
> works" column. Not flashy and probably not the best performer, but it works.
>
I'm inclined to ext3, too. My needs are certainly much more modest than
yours. Just wonder whether there's some downside to ext3, besides not
being the fastest (e.g., problems when there are many files?).

Thanks.

Jorge