[Mimedefang] MD I/O intensive?

[David F. Skoll]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, John Barton wrote:

> AFAIK, reiser4 is still pretty early in development, and not ready for
> production servers. Another option is if you are already using ext3, try
> mounting the filesystem with the data=writeback option, this causes the
> journalling to act more like reiser, and has been shown to offer a big
> performance increase by itself.

A while back, Nick Christenson tested various Linux file systems with
Sendmail and didn't find much difference between them.

His book is excellent; highly recommended if you're going to run a busy
mail server:

http://www.jetcafe.org/~npc/book/sendmail/

--
David.