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Re: Maximum number of available partitions on Debian GNU/Linux (lenny).



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

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