Re: Mount options for Optimizing ext2/ext3 performance with Maildir's

2004-10-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 02:15, Ian Forbes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is ext3 faster or slower than ext2? If you use an external journal on a fast device then ext3 should be much faster. > What mount options give the best performance, "noatime" "data=journal" ? noatime is (IMHO) mandatory for a Ma

Re: Mount options for Optimizing ext2/ext3 performance with Maildir's

2004-10-19 Thread Ian Forbes
On Monday 18 October 2004 22:10, Mark Bucciarelli wrote: > There were some useful comments about optimizing ext3 posted in response to > his original post. Some things that were mentioned: > > - use htree I have been looking at this. Where can I find documentation for "htree", "index" and "dire

Re: Mount options for Optimizing ext2/ext3 performance with Maildir's

2004-10-18 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Monday 18 October 2004 16:15, Ian Forbes wrote: > What mount options give the best performance, "noatime" "data=journal" ? The fellow that runs KDE's news site recently did some investigation of speed / disk usage for Zope's object database vs. ext3. He figured the hierarchical nature of th

Re: Mount options for Optimizing ext2/ext3 performance with Maildir's

2004-10-18 Thread maarten
On Monday 18 October 2004 18:15, Ian Forbes wrote: > I have a mailserver with load average sitting somewhere between 1 and 2. It > is running exim serving a couple of thousand Maildir mailboxes and also has > a bunch of antivirus / antispam programs running on it. It has a pair of > ide hard drive

Mount options for Optimizing ext2/ext3 performance with Maildir's

2004-10-18 Thread Ian Forbes
Hi I have a mailserver with load average sitting somewhere between 1 and 2. It is running exim serving a couple of thousand Maildir mailboxes and also has a bunch of antivirus / antispam programs running on it. It has a pair of ide hard drives running mirrored, raid1. I really do not want to st