Cyrus imap server and filesystem type.

Ramprasad ram at netcore.co.in
Tue Oct 4 09:08:23 EDT 2011


On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 21:58 +0200, Josef Karliak wrote:
> Hi there,
>    what filesystem type do you use for Cyrus imapd ? I use SLES11x64  
> (or opensuse 11.4).
>    I use Reiserfs3.6, so far so good. But couldn't be better ? :)
>    Thanks for share your expericiencies.
>    J.K.
> 
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We have tried reiserfs , ext3 ZFS and xfs on linux. 
Reiserfs is stable   but I think ZFS is the best.  The compression is
something we really appreciate

xfs is horribly slow compared to resierfs or ZFS 



Thanks
Ram




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