best filesystem for imap server

Hamish lists at subvs.co.uk
Fri Dec 3 06:31:00 EST 2004


>I think the performance of those disks (and the RAID you put on them) will
>be much more significant that the filesystem you use, considering the size
>of your user population.  And given that factor, I'd say that even ext3
>won't give you any problems performance-wise.  Still, reiserfs, IMO, would
>be preferable for mail files.
>
>John
>  
>
Thanks for all the answers! I have decided to use reiser with raid1, as 
I have experience with reiser on samba and it works very well. Are there 
any fstab mount options that you could recommend for the raid array? I 
saw a recommendation for EXT3 to use noatime.
Thanks,
H
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