Re: RAID config for mailboxes host

[Emmanuel Halbwachs <Emmanuel.Halbwachs@obspm.fr>]

Hello,

Thomas Goirand a écrit (Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 01:59:25AM +0800) :
> You are considering dovecot instead of what? If the other option was
> Courier, don't consider, just do it. Courier is a dog,

Yes, we're currently running Courier on a RAID 10 setup with 15k.

> do 2x a RAID6 array of 6 disks, and use LVM to make it be seen as a
> single array (if you need to do that). This is statistically a safer
> option, plus LVM will add striping

That's interesting. But without doing the maths, I feel that LVM is
statistically the opposite.

> Anyway, I think that 1500 mailboxes is really a low volume, 

Sure, but mail is vital for our demanding users.

> and I don't think you need that much of hardware! :)

Too late :-)

Thanks, 

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