Re: [Exim] Exim and Journaling Filesystems

Dave Temple wrote:
> Are people using Exim (Maildir delivery in our case) with a decent level
> of incomming messages on Linux with "any" of the Linux Journaling file
> systems in a production environment? If so, I we would very much like to
> hear about your experiences with this.

We manage several extremely large mail setups (10-20 million message/day). We
run exim on ext2. We run Cyrus on xfs. We are very very happy.

I have seen some problems running exim on xfs (perhaps it is a now fixed bug
in xfs). But, as for the mail storage, I think xfs can't be beat.

I would suggest keeping you exim spool and the db files (/var/spool/exim/) on
a really fast non journaled fs. (Ram disk if possible -- backed by a harddrive
of course).

I would say that I am the happiest I have ever been with 10-80 GB Cyrus
directories on xfs.

though I have no direct experience, I would wager that if you put your exim
spools on ext2, but had it deliver to maildir format on xfs you would be safe.

My 3 cents.

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Theo Schlossnagle
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