Hello, same problem, building new toaster, sending message to list but got no reply.
IMHO xfs is best choice, i'm ussing reiserfs3 but have one problem with large maildir (about 700k messages) - reisers screwed this directory and whole filesystem (checking taked about 2 hours for 300G hdd) xfs have little bigger overhead than reiserfs(takes more cpu), but i think (and from using both fs) that reiserfs is faster than xfs. about partition: if you want use clamav or spamassassin put tmp directory (creating tmp files and directories from sa and clamav and qmail-scanner on separate disc), if it's high load server put queue on separate drive too, user maildir should be on separate drive too. my suggested partition nad fs: / - reiserfs /tmp - reiserfs /queue - reiserfs /user maildirs - xfs each volume is separate drive (in best case, in worse case put queue on same driver as /) for /tmp is not need raid reiserfs has good performance in small files (which emails should be:)) better than xfs, but in large number of files in directory is xfs better, so if your queue will contain thousands of emails choose xfs, in /tmp should no left any files after processing (after processing should be deleted) sata raid - hardware or sofware ? (some hw are slower than sw) All above are my experiences and my opinions, if someone have different let know them. 2007/12/21, Jeff Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > We're setting up a new mailserver with a Gigabyte i-ram drive to handle the > qmail queue, and qmail logs. The i-ram drive uses standard DDR modules, has > a battery backup and is lightning fast - much faster than solid state > drives. We'll use SATA RAID for the maildirs and remainder of the server. > > I'd like to get some input on the best filesystem for the i-ram drive. EXT3 > is out because writes are slowed to the speed of a hard drive. I'm leaning > towards reiserfs or xfs. However, I've read (wikipedia) that reiserfs is > easily corrupted. xfs seems the best. > > Anyone have any comments of suggestions. > > > > > Best Regards, > > Jeff Koch, Intersessions > > -- Lampa
