dovecot - May 2009 - Filesystem experience question was Migration questions

Doing a cursory Google scan on journaled Linux filesystems, it seems 
that the three ground-up journaled FSes:  XFS, reiser and JFS all have 
their separate strong points but all compare favorably.  Reiser does a 
better job with many small files...which would seem to be the reality of 
maildir formatted inboxes.
Any comments on that?  Any war stories, that is, any comments on 
reliability, availability and recoverability of them.  Support issues?  
Possible down the road orphaning?  Is FS quotaing support and does it 
work well with a lot (for me that means 4000) users?
Anybody using IBM's open source JFS?

I currently use AIX and it's been as dependable as a hammer there.  In 
some 20 years with AIX, I can count on the fingers of one hand the 
number of times that I've had to use fsck.  We had one set of machines 
that would drop hard 2-3x a week due to a bad main electrical trunk 
splice....2 or 3 years of that and the worst I ever saw was having to 
BRS once every two months or so.  OTOH, I distrust IBM's commitment to 
the little shop and affordable entry machines: this is fast vanishing in 
the pSeries/AIX world...or else we wouldn't be moving towards Linux.

Thanks!  Feel free to contact me offline if you deem this marginally 
related to DC.
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On 5/15/2009, Stewart Dean (sdean at bard.edu) wrote:
> Reiser does a better job with many small files...which would seem to
> be the reality of maildir formatted inboxes.
> Any comments on that?
I have been using Reiserfs3 on my mail server (maildir format) for 4
years, with zero problems, even after a few unclean shutdowns. Of
course, there are also plenty of horror stories, but honestly most are
based on earlier versions of reiserfs before most of the bugs were
worked out..

Anyway, that my .02 clad coins worth...

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Best regards,

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