From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 1 10:26:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F4816A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:26:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from forrie.com (forrie.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.62.205.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22AE743D39 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:26:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from forrie@forrie.com) Received: from forrie.com (i-95.forrie.net. [192.168.1.95]) by forrie.com with ESMTP id i21IPrXF021665 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 13:25:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from forrie@forrie.com) Message-ID: <4043802F.4030301@forrie.com> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 13:25:51 -0500 From: Forrest Aldrich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5+ (Windows/20040229) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.3.0(snapshot 20010925) (forrie.ne.client2.attbi.com) X-MailScanner-LocalNet: Found to be clean Subject: FreeBSD filesystem performance in Enterprise X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 18:26:07 -0000 Curious how FreeBSD ffs performs in Enterprise-level environments (ie: email stores that send 100's of thousands of messages per day) versus other filesystems like XFS (I heard thre's a port going on for FreeBSD..?), ReiserFS, et al. Is there a FAQ that covers some of this and the various tuning issues one might consider (filesystem and kernel). This applies either disk-alone or across a raid array, etc. I'm interested in hearing others experiences (good and bad). Thanks.