Is a simple ext3 partition usually the recommend file system?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rainer Frey (Inxmail GmbH)" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: Performance tuning
On Friday 20 March 2009 02:52:42 Brandon Hilkert wrote:
As I mentioned, we're using the XFS system for the queue, does that
provide
any additional benefit, or would ext3 perform the same? Keep in mind, we
will be dealing with 1,000,000 piece mailouts during a session. My
findings
were that XFS might handle more of the small html email files better,
especially if they get backed up in a deferred queue for some reason, is
this true?
I don't want to make an assumption whether this has anything to do with
the
problem. But although I haven't used XFS for a long time on production
systems, I remember it was not recommended for fast access to many small
files, but contrarily for few large files, e.g. media files for streaming.
Using XFS for a mail spool for performance reason is new to me.
Rainer
