(OT) Mailing list server problems

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On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 02:30:15PM -0800, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> >
> >What filesystem are you using?  I want to know which to avoid for life.  :)
> 
> ext3.

Interesting.  I've never seen ext3 bail like that before.  Ever.  

I honestly think the last filesystem I -really- saw lose it was whatever
was on SCO 3.2.4.2.  Everything else has been pretty mild, in comparison.
I've not seen anything go to lost+found for probably over fifteen years.

> Nope.  I'm running ext4 on a couple of systems, and haven't had
> problems so far.
> 
> All of our systems use courier-imap which stores in Maildir
> format, one file per message.  So far haven't run into issues
> with this even with ISPs having over 10,000 accounts.

Hmmm.  Not sure if the inode table in ext3 was static or not.  I didn't
think so, as the old systems had no issues with any sort of inode ratio,
while the new ones did.

It's just weird to see any non-ext4 version of extX lose its marbles.
Historically, it's been widely used and pretty damned stable.  Bad
experience, to be sure.  :(

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