Re: Linux filesystem advice for email use

2012-02-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/10/2012 10:39 PM, Ori Bani wrote: > Per Stan's response on this thread, what kernel does CentOS 6 use nowadays? RHEL 6.2 is the first rev including all the new XFS goodies. Thus I can only assume you would need CentOS 6.2, which is based on RHEL 6.2. As to what kernel is used, RHEL kernel

Re: Linux filesystem advice for email use

2012-02-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/10/2012 10:33 PM, Ori Bani wrote: > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 2/8/2012 8:24 PM, Bill Cole wrote: >> >>> I would stay away from btrfs until it is much more mature. As a general >>> rule (very general) mail systems stress allocation and metadata >>> efficiency m

Re: Linux filesystem advice for email use

2012-02-10 Thread Ori Bani
>> I'd like to know if anyone here has any thoughts or opinions about the >> best linux filesystem to use for an email system. There will be some >> small amount of website data on the system (including webmail to read >> the emails), although I could move that to another partition if need >> be. >

Re: Linux filesystem advice for email use

2012-02-10 Thread Ori Bani
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 2/8/2012 8:24 PM, Bill Cole wrote: > >> I would stay away from btrfs until it is much more mature. As a general >> rule (very general) mail systems stress allocation and metadata >> efficiency more than sustained data flow, so you'd want to

Re: Linux filesystem advice for email use

2012-02-10 Thread Ori Bani
Thank you for the reply and sorry for the delay in responding. >> I'd like to know if anyone here has any thoughts or opinions about the >> best linux filesystem to use for an email system. There will be some >> small amount of website data on the system (including webmail to read >> the emails),

Re: Linux filesystem advice for email use

2012-02-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/8/2012 8:24 PM, Bill Cole wrote: > I would stay away from btrfs until it is much more mature. As a general > rule (very general) mail systems stress allocation and metadata > efficiency more than sustained data flow, so you'd want to avoid options > like the older versions of XFS. "older ver

Re: Linux filesystem advice for email use

2012-02-08 Thread list
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 17:19:05 -0800, Ori Bani wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to know if anyone here has any thoughts or opinions about the > best linux filesystem to use for an email system. There will be some > small amount of website data on the system (including webmail to read > the emails), althoug

Re: Linux filesystem advice for email use

2012-02-08 Thread Bill Cole
On 8 Feb 2012, at 20:19, Ori Bani wrote: Hi, I'd like to know if anyone here has any thoughts or opinions about the best linux filesystem to use for an email system. There will be some small amount of website data on the system (including webmail to read the emails), although I could move that

Linux filesystem advice for email use

2012-02-08 Thread Ori Bani
Hi, I'd like to know if anyone here has any thoughts or opinions about the best linux filesystem to use for an email system. There will be some small amount of website data on the system (including webmail to read the emails), although I could move that to another partition if need be. Anyone use