A quick and easy performance improvement

[Denis Beauchemin]

Julian Field a écrit :
>> Separate partitions also allow different mount options, and in the 
>> event of data loss due to power outages, etc, it is more likely that 
>> the system will still come up, making it easier for you to restore 
>> from backup as necessary.
>
> With journalling filesystems this is totally irrelevant. They just 
> replay the log (a matter of milliseconds) and come back up.
>

Unless there hasn't been a check in more than 6 months... then the check 
is forced at next reboot... not necessarily when you would have liked it...

I've had problems with both mailstores in the last 6 months and fsck on 
400G partitions with zillions of files takes a lot of time!  On our new 
servers I created 40 10G partitions (easy to manage with Cyrus).

Denis

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