filesystem for mail

[Jerry McBride]

On Monday 16 October 2006 16:57, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> 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?).
>

Of all the filesystems on linux, ext2 is probably one of the oldest ones 
available and probably one of the most mature of all the filesystems out 
there. That said, ext3 is pretty much just an extention to ext3.

That said... :')... it's all I use on servers, desktops and laptops. The only 
downside, according to what I've read, is that it will require an occasional 
fsck.ext3. On the laptops I ride herd over, I force an fsck after 200 boots. 
On desktops 500 and servers... never... they're backed up and protected via 
ups's. All in all, never lost data on any of them due to an "ext3 problem". I 
can't do much for crashed hardware yet...

Something to be aware of also, ext4 is just around the corner... it'll feature 
the capability of handling really large files, partitions and enhanced 
performance.

If ZFS doesn't turn up soon, I think we'll make the move to ext4 when it goes 
g.a....

Cheers.