A Cyrus/murder of that size is possible?

[Gerd v. Egidy]

> > I was thinking about the infamous ext3 data=journal. XFS is better
> > than that (for MTAs)?
>
> Yes, in my experience it is. Ext3 is pityful when compared to XFS for Cyrus
> (and posfix) spools, and other data areas. I got a >3x speed increase in my
> servers when I switched from ext3 (2.4.18 days, data=journal was broken at
> that time) to xfs.  Ext3 is better nowadays, but still...

The major problems of ext3 are the access speed for directories with many 
files and the maximum number of subdirs and files allowed per directory.

I'm running postfix+cyrus on a lot of smaller servers and have made good 
experience with reiserfs.

Kind regards,

Gerd