filesystem for mail

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 08:53 -0700, 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 ...
> 
> 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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Bill, don't you have "Doctor Science" there at Mercer Island? 
Ric
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