recommending reiserfs?

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

Florin Andrei wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 21:16, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
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>>In my first experience working with MySQL, we were recommended
>>to format that particular partition to Reiser for performance
>>reasons.  That's just my initial experience and I had to setup
>>four servers so far, will keep you posted...
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>_In_theory_, for that type of workload (reading/writing fast to/from
>large files), probably XFS is best.
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>But that's just the theory; you have to run benchmarks in your
>particular case and see what happens.
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Looks like it isnt only theory... And it also works fine on small 
files... Lots of people on the official postfix users list have 
recommended the usage of XFS on mailservers that use the maildir format. 
According to them , the performance gain is substancial..

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Pedro Macedo