Bryan Irvine: > How long ago was that? I had the precise problem and had been told > that particular bug has been fixed. My problems were ~5 years ago. > Except that I'm never going to use it anyway because I just can't > force myself to trust it. I've used Postfix under ext3, ffs(openbsd), > ufs(solaris) and never had a single problem with any of them. ext3 > gets the bonus for being (I think) the only one of those to be > journaled.
I suggest using the simplest file system that gets the job done, keeping in mind that Postfix presents a write-mostly load that is dominated by metadata. FLASH memory drives are beginning to look more and more attractive. BTW Solaris UFS has had journaling support as of Solaris 7. Wietse