[tech] A question of File System

[Grahame Bowland]

On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 22:16, David Luyer wrote:
> > which one is more |337?
> 
> ext2fs+inum:patch... (I assume my kernel isn't still running on enyo
> with that Grahame? ;-))

Nope, that's gone. :-)

> or of course there's other kernel hacks like my
> 
> /var/spool/mail/x -> /var/spool/.m/x/x
> 
> ....cuz to be 'leet your fs needs kernel hacks.

One of the first things I ripped out. Replaced the /u/username stuff
with reiserfs. Recently to support our webmail (which for some reason
couldn't handle TxT even with IMAP) I converted all the TxT boxes back
to mbox format (sucky, I know.) We're now pondering Maildirs but aren't
totally convinced.

Anyone know of a decent (eg. non-UW) IMAP server that does mbox? courier
is nice but only does maildirs.

> Why - you assume Microsoft couldn't make a good fs?  NTFS is actually a
> decent fs.

I've never been sure if it's journalled or not. NT4 seems to need a fsck
but 2k on NTFS doesn't seem to.

-- 
Grahame Bowland <grahame at azale.net>