On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 18:22, neuron wrote: > reiserfs, guaranteed personally. Especially on a mail server. I agree, reiserfs was tuned for handling lots of small files. Sounds perfect for a mail server. > I've used jfs, I crashed it twice on purpose (network swap, then disable network card), both times jfs failed to boot. (this is because it trusts it's own journal, which a lot of people love about it, both times for me it was wrong..) > Personally I haven't had any problems with XFS though, but I haven't used it that much. > If you go with XFS, stay away from anything older than 1.3.1. The 1.2 and prior releases had this really nice feature that they ignored the sync command (and fsync I think). The end result is that with a power outage or kernel lockup you could lose lots of work. I had one failure on a lightly used machine that had a whole days activities still sitting in the OS disk cache when the kernel locked up. This is fixed in 1.3.1, Greg _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/