On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 16:46, mb wrote: > At 17:54 +0530 Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: > > >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 > > ..until you get a hardware failure and your entire mail store is toast.
from bitter experience I can only say: too true. ReiserFS handles power outages and other unplanned resets well, but if your SCSI bus acts up for some reason, you'd better have good backups. -- Kjetil T.