On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:21:18 -0500 (EST) wattersm@liquidweb.com wrote:
Considering that distros are moving away from resierfs and its future is uncertain I would avoid it if possible. I've also lost a few volumes because of reiserfs so I don't trust it. XFS or JFS perform just as well or even better, ext3 with the right options is also just as fast according to recent benchmarks.
And what were they benchmarking?
Remember, always benchmark with your application. Recent reports from cyrus mailing lists indicate that ext3 is still not up to the task, dirhash and journal tweaking included.
As others already suggested, using NetApp and NFS with courier or dovecot (cyurs has issues with NFS) is an option to avoid all this linux fs mess. If your budget can afford it :)