FileSystemsLinux

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• NFS Network File System
• GFS Global File System

XFS

From http://spamaps.org/raidtests.php :

EXT3 is extremely robust and mature. [...] but slow ....

XFS takes the performance numbers [...] XFS *really* gets trounced on the delete speed. [...] it makes one think twice about using XFS for something like Maildir storage.

Additional interesting Links:

• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=398332
• http://seife.kernalert.de/blog/2009/05/28/improving-xfs-unlink-performance/
• http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1479435
• http://piao-tech.blogspot.com/2007/04/file-system-benchmarks-for-postfix-mail.html

maildirsetup

mkfs.xfs -f -l size=64m -d agcount=16
mount -t xfs -o noatime,nodiratime,logbufs=8

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