FreeBSD filesystem performance in Enterprise

[Gary]

Hi Forrest,

--On Monday, March 01, 2004 05:13:09 PM -0500 Forrest Aldrich 
<forrie at forrie.com> wrote:

> Not trying to start a holy war -  just  looking into hard facts to
> support some systems I'm designing.   FFS will either work, or it won't.
> Black or white.
>
> The type of I/O I'm talking about will be in the 100's of thousands of
> email messages (probably more) per day... obviously the underlying OS,
> filesystem tuning, hardware are also an issue.  I'm simply trying to gain
> some insight into other's experience with FFS, etc.

Yahoo uses FreeBSD and qmail, and they deliver in the millions daily.. 100s 
of 1000s per day is nothing for a good MTA and OS like FreeBSD.

-- 
Gary