best file system ?

Marcin Mirosław
Tue, 02 Dec 2014 09:24:26 -0000

W dniu 02.12.2014 o 08:41, Alessio Cecchi pisze:
>
> Il 01/12/2014 21:13, Marcin Miros?aw ha scritto:
>> W dniu 2014-12-01 o 18:19, Alessio Cecchi pisze:
>>> Il 01/12/2014 17:24, absolutely_free at libero.it ha scritto:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I'm going to set up a new storage for our email users
(about 10k).
>>>> It's a network attached storage (Coraid).
>>>> In your opinion, what is the best file system for mail server
>>>> (pop3/imap/webmail) purpose?
>>>> Thank you
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> XFS, if you can use RHEL/CentOS 6, ext4 with others distro.
>> Hi!
>> Does XFS works better on RHEL than on others distro?;)
> Yes, because in the kernel of RHEL (>= 6) there are some patchs/options
> (like delaylog) not present in others distro (like Debian 6) with
> default kernel.

It means that you advice to use XFS with delaylog:) There are many
distros which not uses ancient kernel like 2.6.32 with bunch of
backported patches. So it's better to tell which feature from given
filesystem you consider as important than suggesting distro.
Regards,
Marcin