Andrew Newton writes: 

> I'm setting up Courier on a new box (complete fresh install of OS) and was 
> wondering which filesystems would be best to use.  I hadn't really thought 
> about the issue much until a co-worker mentioned it.  I was gonna use 
> reiserfs because I read somewhere that it didn't really use i-nodes, which 
> I perceive might be a problem to a mail system that uses Maildir format 
> (lots of small files, just the potential for running out of i-nodes).

Well, even if the filesystem itself does not actually implement inode 
semantics, it must emulate inode semantics nevertheless.  Courier does 
depend on a file's inode being a unique file identifier. 

> But are there any other issues I need to consider, like synchronicity and 
> atomicity of mail delivery?

No.  I consider this issue to be rather overblown, and is only of interest 
to people who don't have anything better to talk about. 

 


-- 
Sam 


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