Diskspace on redhat ent 3

Peter Nitschke email at ace.net.au
Wed Feb 14 04:31:12 CET 2007


On 14/02/2007 at 10:18 AM Res wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Glenn Steen wrote:
>
>> It is those times when the complete filesystem goes bonkers on you (be
>> that from HW problems like head crashes or whatever) that you start
>> regretting the one-for-all strategy. Or if you have a somewhat modern
>
>Standardised OS drive (except bind/sendmail/qmail/apache/sql/some_daemon),
>well 2 off in raid 1, then the other 4 drives (or many more if SAN) in
>raid 10, works very well, basic redundancy, but excellent speed.
>
>One thing though, if it's an Email server, I'd recommend use reiserfs, it 
>leaves ext2/ext3 for dead especially in Maildir setups but even mbox has 
>substantial benefits.

What about for a mail gateway?  I don't actually store the mail on that
box.  Still worth looking into?

Peter




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