Re: [Dovecot] Best inode_ratio for maildir++ on ext4

2010-02-22 Thread Ed W
On 19/02/2010 23:51, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Rodolfo Gonzalez put forth on 2/19/2010 5:18 PM: Hi, This might be a silly question: which would be the best inode ratio for a 5 Tb filesystem dedicated to Maildir++ storage? I use ubuntu server, which has a preconfigured setting for mkfs.ext4

Re: [Dovecot] Best inode_ratio for maildir++ on ext4

2010-02-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Rodolfo Gonzalez put forth on 2/19/2010 5:18 PM: Hi, This might be a silly question: which would be the best inode ratio for a 5 Tb filesystem dedicated to Maildir++ storage? I use ubuntu server, which has a preconfigured setting for mkfs.ext4 called news with inode_ratio = 4096, and after

Re: [Dovecot] Best inode_ratio for maildir++ on ext4

2010-02-19 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
Hi! On Fre, 2010-02-19 at 17:18 -0600, Rodolfo Gonzalez wrote: [...] This might be a silly question: which would be Not at all IMHO. the best inode ratio for a 5 Tb filesystem dedicated to Maildir++ storage? I use ubuntu server, which has a preconfigured setting for mkfs.ext4 called news

Re: [Dovecot] Best inode_ratio for maildir++ on ext4

2010-02-19 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 17:51 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: If your version of Ubuntu server has XFS support built in, forget ext4 and go XFS. It's more reliable, faster in every single benchmark I've seen especially for large numbers of files, both large and small, has a ton of management

Re: [Dovecot] Best inode_ratio for maildir++ on ext4

2010-02-19 Thread Noel Butler
Bugger, hit enter too soon, was going to say, it is probably better than using EXT4 though, why on earth anyone would use that on a serious production server I'll never know. On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 11:51 +1000, Noel Butler wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 17:51 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: If

Re: [Dovecot] Best inode_ratio for maildir++ on ext4

2010-02-19 Thread Rodolfo Gonzalez Gonzalez
Noel Butler wrote: Agree wth XFS, providing, and a big providing, you have reliable and guaranteed power, hard powerouts on XFS are not known for their niceness and protection of data Bugger, hit enter too soon, was going to say, it is probably better than using EXT4 though, why on earth

Re: [Dovecot] Best inode_ratio for maildir++ on ext4

2010-02-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Rodolfo Gonzalez Gonzalez put forth on 2/20/2010 12:18 AM: I used to have the maildirs on ReiserFS and never had a problem with it, but given the current state of that FS and that I weren't really comfortable with it, I'll give XFS a try for the maildir array and the postfix queue partition.