recommended filesystem for kolab

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

thanks for the response.

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Neil Price wrote:

> Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> > so I may go for a recent kernel.  Is there a major benefit to be had from
> > using some other filesystem such as XFS?
> >   
> XFS works well with LVM because you can expand volumes on the fly. 

In my experience you can do that with moderately recent ext3 filesystems
too.  Though perhaps it's quicker/cleaner/faster/safer with XFS?

> If thats of use to you then it might be worth it. It caches very
> aggressively and so is more vulnerable than ext3 without reliable 
> hardware and a UPS.

That's interesting to note alright and might steer me toward ext3.

Gavin