Diskspace on redhat ent 3

[Peter Nitschke]

On 14/02/2007 at 1:57 PM Res wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Peter Nitschke wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>
>In your case I've used this, on the front ends, 2x36G (can be 18G if you 
>have them spare) 10K rpm scsi in raid 1 for the OS (ext2). Then 1x36G 10k 
>rpm for /var/log (ext2) and 1x72G 15K rpm for /var/spool (reiser).
>No need for raid on those two disks.
>I also use a ramdrive for /var/spool/MailScanner.

Serious stuff!  Fortunately most junk gets blocked at the MTA level, so my
processing load isn't too bad on a fairly ordinary PC.  However if I can
get a gain just from changing file systems, then I would be happy to look
into it.

As it's a gateway it only needs a handful of Gb as long as I don't let
quarantine build up too much.

Peter