1 Topic by mbsouth

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Topic: file system to use

Mailserver should run without interrupts for years.

ext3fs don´t trusts itself and do a fs check after amount of mounts or several days.

If I have to reboot the server after long time, a file system check is a possible issue and could take a long time (hours) when useing ext3fs.

xfs should be faster. What do you think about xfs in a mailserver environment?

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2 Reply by ZhangHuangbin

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Re: file system to use

I havn't used XFS before. but i trust ext3 on RHEL.

If reiserfs is available , you can use it to get better performance for mail service (mails always are small files).

3 Reply by Suno Ano

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Re: file system to use

if at at, let's wait for btrfs wink ... checksums on data and metadata plus a whole lot more ... snapshots for example ...

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