Søren Schimkat wrote: > Hi guys > > I'm about to migrate from Solaris with Sendmail / uw to Redhat > Enterprise Linux with Postfix / Cyrus. Everything seems to work just > fine, but one unsolved question remains: Which filesystem should I choose? > > I really would like to use ext3 .. because it's works great and seems > rock solid, but i'm scareed shitless of inode starvation. Any thoughts > on that one? > > Which filesystem would you recomend? ext3, hands down. It's rock-solid and well-tested and won't eat the *entire* FS after a crash (*cough* ReiserFS *cough*) The real biggie... it won't eat your mail spool if you have an unexpected crash (*cough* XFS, JFS, ReiserFS without journaled data *cough*) IMO inode starvation is a non-issue with ext3, or any other file system for that matter. We have a 100GB RAID5 (5x 36GB) for our mail spool containing approx 65GB of data and approx 5.9 million messages (well, really 3.9 million once you count the single-instance message store)... our disk space is being used up faster than the FS inodes. -- Phil Brutsche phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
