Performance numbers for a DELL R710

[Steve Freegard]

Zaeem Arshad wrote:
> I have had good results so far with XFS. I am willing to give NILFS a
> spin. Anyone else can vouch for it? 

Being as it's not even properly in the kernel yet - I doubt it.  It will
be in 2.6.30 when it is released.

> Every last bit of performance that can be extracted from a system matters.

I rate reliability over performance - particularly on a production mail
system and especially when it comes to filesystems.  Which is exactly
why I'd stick with ext3 on Linux.

Regards,
Steve.