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[ProgSoc] Re: [ADMIN] imap & pop



On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 02:09 am, you wrote:
> >  Maildir require a real file system to benefit (where real != ext?fs)
> >  from the performance improvements?
>
> If you are using anything but ext3 (for read/write) on Linux, you are
> insane.

I know I'm going to regret asking this, but why?  

I know ext3 has the ability to do slightly better journalling (data + 
metadata, not just metadata) if you're really nuts about that, but it's 
goddam inefficient, and often slower.  For one, on my 720gb file server 
partition I lost an absurd amount of space as overhead using ext3 before 
moving to reiserfs.
-- 
David Edney
President
UTS Programmers' Society

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