performance on large inboxes

[Robert Mueller]

> 
> I'm using ext3 with dir_hash. I considered using XFS, but there are a 
> lot of benchmarks that show that XFS is not faster in general, also the 
> XFS development seems to be stucked at the moment and from my own 
> experience as well as from other people in a recent thread on this 
> mailinglist there are some really strange errors appearing from time to 
> time with XFS that are making it a bad choice for production systems, 
> especially when it happens, that the server crashs unexpectedly (i.e. a 
> memory module fails). I tried to trust ReiserFS several times and I had 
> so much problems with it, that I don't intend to use it ever again. Even 
>  Novell/SuSE which praised ReiserFS for a long time turned away from it.

I posted my previous thoughts here:

http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/2006-October/024119.html

Rob