> You should mount your mail spool with "data=journal". While this may > seem contradictory (forcing journaling for the data in addition to the > metadata), it will likely improve the performance for sync I/O loads > like mail servers because it can do all of the I/O to the journal without > any seek or sync overhead while the mail is arriving. Eventually the > journal will flush the data to the disk, but this can be done async > because it is already safe in the journal. the proposed solution has (more or less) no effect. i hope i have done it right - here is the autput of "mount" for the var partition - is this the correct setting ? /dev/sda6 on /var type ext3 (rw,data=journal) Alex.
