Sam Varshavchik wrote: > 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.
While it may be off topic, I shall throw my $0.02 in... I would use ext2 or ext3. ext3 is just journaling on top of the proven stability of ext2, so you loose less in a hard boot, plus you don't have the long fsck wait when doing a cold reboot. Redhat, as of 7.2, uses ext3 by default as well. Another coo, ext2 kernels can still mount/access ext3 fs's, just no journal support. _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
