-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:28:58AM -0200, Heitor Augusto M Cardozo wrote: > >> - 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. > > > I had two bad experiences with ReiserFS in our Mail Server, reiserfsck is > too slow and lost data. > > IMHO ReiserFS have the best performance for Maildir but its only safe on > production if you´re sure that the system I/O will never fail. nullfs (mount -t nullfs /dev/null /var/spool/mail) is even faster than ReiserFS, and is just slightly more likely to loose your data. :) []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHTGTTpdyWzQ5b5ckRAhDzAKDCR0UL4PQOmKSAJlbA3jGW1+9EnACfRZSs qSjiQDLaOfTUsMStAZkL9XA= =IG5U -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----