Which fs for storing mailboxes?

[Pandu Poluan]

Sorry, forgot to mention that we'll be using 10.04 LTS.

Rgds,


On 2011-06-18, Pandu Poluan <pandu at poluan.info> wrote:
> Hello list!
>
> We're going to deploy Axigen for our subsidiary company's email system.
>
> Now, I want to split the storage into 4:
>   * Boot : ext2
>   * Swap
>   * Root : ext4
>   * Mailboxes : ?which?
>
> The question: what filesystem should I use for the partition
> containing the mailboxes? Ext4? XFS? Or something else? What would be
> their advantages/disadvantages?
>
> FYI, the email server will have 40~50 simultaneous users, traffic will
> be relatively light (I don't think there will be more than 30-40
> emails per day for 90% of the users), and the emails mostly are
> mid-sized (100 KiB ~ 1 MiB, occasionally (less than 5% of time) 2 MiB
> ~ 4 MiB).
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Rgds,
>
>
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