Eric Persson wrote:
I'm looking to improve the performance on one of our imap-servers since its getting slow on large folders with 100k or more files in them. The imapserver is courier imap(using maildir format), and I'll hope to keep that as of now.However, I read that reiserfs was more efficient than ext3 handling lots of small files, which sounds like a good choice for this application. But is there other options? Is reiserfs the best choice?Hints, personal experience, feedback would be interesting.. :) /eric
These links may be a little bit out-dated and I hope someone else can supplement them:
Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison on Debian Etch http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388 Benchmarking Filesystems Part II LG #122 http://linuxgazette.net/122/piszcz.html Filesystems comparison using kernel build http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/kernbuild/index.php -- Regards, Jörg-Volker.