[Courier-imap] Which filesystem is the best one for maildir++

2007-07-11 Thread courier-imap
Hello all, which filesystem is the best one for a partition containg only maildir++ mailboxes? We already use ReiserFS, but have a big IO-Wait. (SEARCH and ORDER is slow on big IMAP folders) Is XFS, JFS, ext3 (with journal and h-tree) or ext4 better? Any recommendations?

Re: [Courier-imap] Which filesystem is the best one for maildir++

2007-07-11 Thread Francis Galiegue
Le mercredi 11 juillet 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hello all, which filesystem is the best one for a partition containg only maildir++ mailboxes? We already use ReiserFS, but have a big IO-Wait. (SEARCH and ORDER is slow on big IMAP folders) Is XFS, JFS, ext3 (with journal and

Re: [Courier-imap] Which filesystem is the best one for maildir++

2007-07-11 Thread courier-imap
Hello all, which filesystem is the best one for a partition containg only maildir++ mailboxes? We already use ReiserFS, but have a big IO-Wait. (SEARCH and ORDER is slow on big IMAP folders) Is XFS, JFS, ext3 (with journal and h-tree) or ext4 better? Any recommendations? I take it you

Re: [Courier-imap] clear text Vs encrypted password in LDAP

2007-07-11 Thread Brian Candler
If so, what changes will be required to our setup? It depends exactly on what encrypted passwords means. It could mean any one of different things. 1) LDAP connection using SSL 2) Encrypted passwords held in the userPassword attribute, which will be accessible to the admin login

Re: [Courier-imap] Which filesystem is the best one for maildir++

2007-07-11 Thread Brian Candler
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:16:26PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, which filesystem is the best one for a partition containg only maildir++ mailboxes? We already use ReiserFS, but have a big IO-Wait. (SEARCH and ORDER is slow on big IMAP folders) Is XFS, JFS, ext3 (with

Re: [Courier-imap] Which filesystem is the best one for maildir++

2007-07-11 Thread Eduardo Kienetz
On 7/11/07, Brian Candler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:16:26PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, which filesystem is the best one for a partition containg only maildir++ mailboxes? We already use ReiserFS, but have a big IO-Wait. (SEARCH and ORDER

Re: [Courier-imap] clear text Vs encrypted password in LDAP

2007-07-11 Thread Jay Lee
Brian Candler wrote: Then you can probably use LDAP_AUTHBIND to validate the passwords. However this will only let you use AUTH PLAIN, not CRAM-MD5 (which in any case is not a problem if users are connecting in over SSL) Yes, that is exactly what we do. Jay begin:vcard fn:Jay Lee n:Lee;Jay

Re: [Courier-imap] Which filesystem is the best one for maildir++

2007-07-11 Thread Francis Galiegue
Le mercredi 11 juillet 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I take it you use Linux. Go with ext3. Not the fastest, not the best one theoretically, but THE most stable when you use Linux. OK. But which one would be the fastest (most efficient)? Given that maildir++ is small files mostly,

Re: [Courier-imap] Which filesystem is the best one for maildir++

2007-07-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Eduardo Kienetz writes: hmm, this made me think about courier-imap... and my graduation project... Sam, do you think some courier-imap operations could be parallelised (via MPI on a cluster) to improve performance? There's nothing much to parallelize. The only operations worth parallelizing

Re: [Courier-imap] Which filesystem is the best one for maildir++

2007-07-11 Thread Eduardo Kienetz
On 7/11/07, Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eduardo Kienetz writes: hmm, this made me think about courier-imap... and my graduation project... Sam, do you think some courier-imap operations could be parallelised (via MPI on a cluster) to improve performance? There's nothing much

Re: [Courier-imap] Which filesystem is the best one for maildir++

2007-07-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Eduardo Kienetz writes: On 7/11/07, Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eduardo Kienetz writes: hmm, this made me think about courier-imap... and my graduation project... Sam, do you think some courier-imap operations could be parallelised (via MPI on a cluster) to improve