We use Exim with reiserfs on a 2.2.x kernel on 2 machines. Works fine.
John Horne wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I noticed on the squid (web cache) mailing list recently than people had
> been having some substantial (?) performance improvement by using the reiser
> file system (ReiserFS) available with the linux 2.4 kernels. My own thoughts
> were that reiserFS was a logging file system, but I gather it also provides
> an improvement because it is geared towards many small files within a large
> directory.
>
> Since Exim, probably at the larger sites, may also have many small files
> within a directory, I was wondering if anyone had considered using resierFS
> with exim? Whilst it is not applicable at our site - we're not *that* large
> and use Sun/Solaris boxes - I thought it may be worth consideration by
> others.
>
> There was also mention of 'fastfs', for those people using Sun/Solaris, as
> being faster than ufs. I have not heard of this, but will look into it
> further - myself and a colleague have just been given responsibility for the
> Uni web and web cache servers!
>
> Regards,
>
> John.
>
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