Curious how FreeBSD ffs performs in Enterprise-level
environments (ie:
email stores that send 100's of thousands of messages per
day) versus
other filesystems like XFS (I heard thre's a port going on for
FreeBSD..?), ReiserFS, et al. Is there a FAQ that covers
some of this
and
Not trying to start a holy war - just looking into hard facts to
support some systems I'm designing. FFS will either work, or it
won't. Black or white.
The type of I/O I'm talking about will be in the 100's of thousands of
email messages (probably more) per day... obviously the underlying
Hi Forrest,
--On Monday, March 01, 2004 05:13:09 PM -0500 Forrest Aldrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not trying to start a holy war - just looking into hard facts to
support some systems I'm designing. FFS will either work, or it won't.
Black or white.
The type of I/O I'm talking about will
FFS is fine, until you crash.
Generally a FreeBSD machine with FFS and Softdeps can keep up, the challenge
comes when you have to fsck everything to get back from a crash. That is why
things like LFS et alia are useful. For things like mail directories the
problem can be partitioned into
