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Re: Premature "No Space left on device" on XFS

From: Wietse Venema <wietse_at_nospam>
Date: Sat Oct 08 2011 - 10:17:19 GMT
To: Postfix users <postfix-users@postfix.org>

Stan Hoeppner:
> nicely. On the other hand, you won't see an EXTx filesystem capable of
> anywhere close to 10GB/s or greater file IO. Here XFS doesn't break a
> sweat.

I recall that XFS was optimized for fast read/write with large
files, while email files are small, and have a comparatively high
metadata overhead (updating directories, inodes etc.). XFS is
probably not optimal here.

        Wietse