best filesystem for imap server

[Einar Indridason]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:07:46PM -0600, Jim Miller wrote:
> 
> 
> I feel that XFS is a bad choice since it is not a 'truly' journaled file
> system.  If you have a power failure/system crash/lockup, etc., etc. You
> could very easily end up with a corrupt file system -- XFS doesn't write out
> to the disks immediately (caching unwritten data to memory).  EXT3 is
> journaled but very slow.  ReiserFS is a better choice for a journaled file
> system and if you can hold off until all the bugs are worked out, Reiser4FS
> would be the best choice (IMHO).


Don't forget JFS from IBM.

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