Am 2009-10-24 05:13:06, schrieb Thomas Goirand: > But really, I don't see what is your point in using so many partition > when you have LVM available. I really don't see how this would increase > safety of your data. A server crash with a 1 TByte volume will give headache for one week if you are forced to run fsck. exspecialy if you 50 million mesages there. I was already runing into this problem for some years on my courier-imap and it was running arround 10 days to restore the volume. > While creating many partition can have some benefits (like reducing the > risk that a single user uses all the inodes for example...), Even if ext3/reiserfs/xfs support several billion inodes, having 50 mio of messages and more in a maildir partition... Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### <http://www.tamay-dogan.net/> Michelle Konzack <http://www.can4linux.org/> Apt. 917 <http://www.flexray4linux.org/> 50, rue de Soultz Jabber linux4michelle@jabber.ccc.de 67100 Strabourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) Tel. DE: +49 177 9351947 ICQ #328449886 Tel. FR: +33 6 61925193
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