Heitor Augusto M Cardozo wrote: > Hi all, > > In last year, i had made some research and benchmarks based on CentOS 4 > to know which filesystem is better for Maildir: ReiserFS, XFS or EXT3. > > My conclusion was as follows: > > - EXT3: reliable but very slow to read many small files. > - ReiserFS: best performance but unreliable and bad recovery tools. > - XFS: My choice, good performance and reliability. I would contest the last two. > > On CentOS 5.0, a had the same benchmarks and now, EXT3 and XFS seems to > had better or equivalent performance on Read and Create Random files. > One of this tests, using bonnie++, show this: > > # bonnie++ -d /mnt/sdc1/testfile -s 8192 -m `hostname` -n > 50:150000:5000:1000 bonnie++? Not appropriate. Try this: http://untroubled.org/benchmarking/2004-04/ And add JFS to the mix. You will be surprised. > > What i want to know is: Anyone use or recommend EXT3 for Maildir? If you do not have full blown battery back for write caches yes. > > My configuration: 3Ware 9650SE-8LPML, 8 drives SATA2 ST3500630AS 500GB > on RAID 10. > Add BBU and XFS or JFS should do.