Re: journaling fs and large mailbox format

From: Z.C.B. (vvelox_at_vvelox.net)
Date: 09/29/05

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    Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:01:03 -0500
    To: aanton@spintech.ro
    
    

    From personal experience on a smaller system(~1000 accounts and
    nearly all ways less than 45MB boxes) I would suggest avoiding mboxes
    all together. Maildir is all ways the way to go. For cleaning stuff
    out automatically and ect, maildir is much nicer as well.

    Also is this vnodes or inodes? See the tuning man pages. For vnodes,
    there are some sysctls.

    On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 04:11:29 +0300
    Alin-Adrian Anton <aanton@spintech.ro> wrote:

    > Dear Hackers,
    >
    > First of all thank you for your time and attention.
    >
    > I am in the position to implement a large-scale mail server
    > and I will never go for anything else but FreeBSD (fixation?).
    >
    > It should be able to handle graceously 4000 e-mail accounts
    > where a minimum of 50 Mb/mailbox would be a requirement. In the
    > begining, it is desirable that users could use as much free space
    > as available, so this implies some gigabytes/mailbox.
    >
    > I don't know if the mbox format can handle this, and I know
    > Maildir cannot handle this on UFS2 standard install, no matter of
    > soft-updates. (because it exhaustes the free nodes) So I currently
    > have no solution for this stuff.
    >
    > I was wondering what is the status of Journaling File
    > Systems on FreeBSD? Any which is usable and mature, with write
    > access? XFS would fit amazingly well with Maildir, but.. I doubt
    > it's anything else but readonly.
    >
    > So any suggestion would really help a lot. Thank's in
    > advance.
    >
    >
    > Yours Sincerely,
    > --
    > Alin-Adrian Anton
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