> Patrice wrote: >> Thank you Dave ! >> >> I will use 'flat' files then. >> >> a last question : do you use flat for all cyrus files or just for >> mailboxes.db ? > > For us, flat is where it's at. We're using flat for everything.
Don't remember, at least for 2.2.x, annotation_db, duplicate_db and ptscache_db can't be flat. Simon > > I should probably give you more information to base your decision on, > though. > > Our last setup was running cyrus 1.5.14. We were using flat there, and > as I recall there wasn't a choice at the time. That was running on a > single Sun Ultra-Enterprise 4500. /var/imap was a regular Solaris ufs > filesystem, and the amount of I/O to /var/imap was so severe that we > ended up purchasing a solid state disk device to be able to cope. > > Our new setup is cyrus 2.1.17 running on a 4-node active-active Veritas > cluster. /var/imap is now a Veritas cluster filesystem that resides on > a SAN. We're not seeing any performance issues with our new setup. > > Thanks, > > Dave > > > > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > > ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html