I was even able to see a dramatic difference with a single user accessing a fairly large mailbox (thousands of messages in the inbox)
David Lang
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, John Madden wrote:
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:12:57 -0500 (EST) From: John Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: best filesystem for imap server
I dont want to start a religious battle, but could I have some opinions on filesystems for a 100ish user imap server? I have 2x 250G western digital disks to use.
I think the performance of those disks (and the RAID you put on them) will be much more significant that the filesystem you use, considering the size of your user population. And given that factor, I'd say that even ext3 won't give you any problems performance-wise. Still, reiserfs, IMO, would be preferable for mail files.
John
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