ext3 is great for reliability, and if your server is powerful enough for the number of users you have it may not matter. But moving a Cyrus server from ext3 to ReiserFS or XFS will almost certainly give you some performance increase.
ext3 in the Linux 2.4 kernel starts bogging down when you have a very large number of files in a single directory, such as a large Cyrus mailbox folder. It doesn't support directory indexing like ReiserFS, JFS, or XFS do, though I think in the Linux 2.6 kernel, directory indexing is an optional ext3 feature...
-Jules
Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote:
Hello all,
I am having around 2000 users on my cyrus server ( redhat 9.0 )
someone told be I should reformat my partition in Reiserfs rather that ext3 and I will get a great perlformance improvement
Is that so Thank Ram
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