On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 20:34 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Jesse C. Smillie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > The only thing I'm not sure of is what the best file system to keep this > > on. I have been keeping my home directories on ReiserFS for quite a > > while, but one of our tech thinks XFS would be good. > > XFS is lousy for many small files. We tried XFS for our 9000 Users > (Maildir) and swithced back to ext3. > > > All data I have right now tells me to stay ReiserFS though. Even > > Dovecot's own page says XFS may not be a wise choice. > > My experience tells me to stay away from ReiserFS as well.
How about NSS? I was considering using Netware's NSS for my backend server - either from Netware or Linux OES, but I'm not sure how OES actually handles the filesystem.. Anyways, in addition to journaling, you get deleted file salvage, open file backup/snapshot, and easily expandable volumes... I know you can do the last with LVM on Linux, and I recall something similar on FreeBSD - but I have no experience with either, and they're both missing salvage and snapshot. Ok ok, so I really just love salvage. ;)
