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Can I run a mail server application on MooseFS? Mail server is a very busy application with a large number of small files – will I not lose any files?

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Can I run a mail server application on MooseFS? Mail server is a very busy application with a large number of small files – will I not lose any files?

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You can run a mail server on MooseFS. You won’t lose any files under a large system load. When the file system is busy, it will block until its operations complete, which will just cause the mail server to slow down.