Re: recommendations for large mail system

[Juha Kumpulainen <juha.kumpulainen@gmail.com>]

Hi Marc,

On 2/7/06, Marc Schiffbauer <marc@schiffbauer.net> wrote:
> * Juha Kumpulainen schrieb am 06.02.06 um 09:09 Uhr:
> > Hello Admins,
> >
>
> [...]
>
> > schema, cyrus app.level replication and drbd. Filesystem is lvm+ext3.
> > Machiens are 3Ghz dualcore xeons with 6G of ram.
>
> Perhaps you should consider using XFS instead of ext3. I experienced
> a much better performance with XFS on filesystems with many small
> files (cyrus)
>
> -Marc
XFS is definedly worth to try, especially with cyrus replication.
I'm bit hesitant with XFS+DRBD as people have reported problems
with this combination.

Thanks

Juha