Re: Can we build a proper email cluster? (was: Re: Why is debian.org email so unreliable?)
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Will Newton wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 Oct 2004 22:29, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>
> > The other is to use a filesystem that copes very well with power failures,
> > and tune it for spool work (IMHO a properly tunned ext3 would be best, as
> > XFS has data integrity issues on crashes even if it is faster (and maybe
> > the not-even-data=ordered XFS way of life IS the reason it is so fast). I
> > don't know about ReiserFS 3, and ReiserFS 4 is too new to trust IMHO).
>
> I'm not familiar XFS in a mail server situation, but I am currently working on
> a PVR box that uses XFS and it gets the plug pulled on it as a daily
> occurrence. I have found XFS to be fast and solid even in this situation.
The metadata will not get corrupted. But search your files for big blocks of
NULLs...
I have seen XFS do that on 2.4.x kernels (including X=27 and X=28-pre3),
in different machines.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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