Actually my personal choice is to have 2 partitions: ext2 for kannel's spool, and ext3 (or whatever journaled fs you prefer) for all the rest.
This has many advantages: * ext2 is way faster than other fs when dealing with a large number of small files. * fs corruption on the ext2 partition wouldn't affect your OS operation and you could fix it without rebooting the box. * A journaled fs for the OS and regular files is safer and faster to recover for big partitions. * You don't need much space on the ext2 partition (a 5Gb partition would be more than enough for most people) so a recovery would be fast anyway. Regards, Alex On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Nikos Balkanas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > It was actually a discussion between me and Alex G, who has experimented > with various filesystems. It was agreed that spool is faster and more secure > than file for storage, but the appropriate filesystem should be used. Avoid > filesystems with logging (i.e. ext3). Ext2 is a much better choice. Also > Alex had some reservations when the spool subdirectories exceeded 50,000 msg > in queue. For that it would be best to use an undexed filesystem (i.e. > Reiser) or similar if you expect high volume. > > Bottom line. Pick an indexed filesystem without logging. Ext2 is not > indexed but for low queues (< 50000) it is the best choice. Optimize also > mount options (noasctime, etc.). Put spool on a seperate disk and use > solid-state for faster access. > > BR, > Nikos > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rolandow" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 3:06 PM > Subject: Recommended filesystem on Debian Linux > > > > Hi all, >> >> If I am able to do a completely new server setup, what would be the best >> filesystem to choose? I thought I saw Nikos commenting on a mail about the >> filesystem ago, and I think he said ext2 would be better than ext3? >> >> Suppose I would process a txt file with 5 million CSV lines in it, I >> suppose it would be best to have it running on an other physical disk than >> Kannel, right? >> >> Hope somebody could give me some advice, because we didn't have experience >> with bulk traffic like this before. >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> Regards, >> Roland. >> >> > >
