-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brandon Ooi said the following on 19/04/11 21:32: > Mail servers with high I/O won't get much (if any) of a performance boost. It's an i/o issue not something that ext4 can help you with except possibly a faster fsck if things go down. Things like delayed allocation.. extents.. Don't help with millions of tiny files. > > Faster drives and hardware raid with write cache. Better if you can have multiple disk sets and spread i/o around. Do you think that under VMware ESXi it would be better or worse to migrate to ext4? Ciao, luigi - -- / +--[Luigi Rosa]-- \ One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs, but it is amazing how many eggs one can break without making a decent omelette. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2uU34ACgkQ3kWu7Tfl6ZRQkgCgoSsyXFl43kcraComCKUQTyax vQEAnRLPDJewsqrIHz+eWF9JcZzLmj0j =6Awm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----