on 11/27/2007 10:41 AM Rodrigo Barbosa spake the following: > -----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. :) > But it is way more predictable at WHEN it will lose data. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!