Updating README.Debian

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Thu Jul 20 20:52:01 UTC 2006


On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Benjamin E. Seidenberg wrote:
> Henrique: Do you still think that this statement is true?
>  o Ext2 is slow on very large directories (right now), and sync medatada
>    writes enabled are a huge performance hit. If you need high IO throughput
>    from Cyrus, you will need to use ext3, reiserfs, xfs or something like
>    that.  xfs is probably the best one.

Drop "xfs is probably the best one.".  It is best only if you are NOT going
to suffer a hardware failure or kernel oops.

But yes, ext2 is still a Bad Idea for Cyrus spools.

> Is the following true as well?
> "However, ctl_cyrusdb -r is NOT FULLY IMPLEMENTED YET... you are on
> your own to recover from corrupt databases."

Sorry, I have no idea if this one was fixed.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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