Re: ZFS storage and backup

2021-11-22 Thread Joseph Tam
On Fri, 19 Nov 2021, James wrote: On 15/11/2021 16:18, infoomatic wrote: Regarding storage I tend to use sdbox, from what I have read it seems to be the better option when using a COW filesystem compared to mdbox. One more https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/mailbox_formats/ sdbox single-d

Re: ZFS storage and backup

2021-11-19 Thread James
On 15/11/2021 16:18, infoomatic wrote: Regarding storage I tend to use sdbox, from what I have read it seems to be the better option when using a COW filesystem compared to mdbox. One more https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/mailbox_formats/ sdbox single-dbox, one message per file. mdbox m

Re: ZFS storage and backup

2021-11-15 Thread infoomatic
On 15.11.21 11:04, James wrote: I will use native ZFS encryption soon.  I see no performance issues in test. Don't get hung up on ZFS tuning, mostly ZFS just works. yes I know, I love working with it, I have used it for > 10 years now, but it happened that none of my mailserver projects used

Re: ZFS storage and backup

2021-11-15 Thread James
On 14/11/2021 14:14, infoomatic wrote: My setups are nothing special with few users, however, I would like to have a nice setup, maybe some of you could contribute to this thread. We are using slow spinning disks, but we may consider using ssds in a not-so-distant future. *) storages: any infos

Re: ZFS storage and backup

2021-11-14 Thread William Edwards
> Op 14 nov. 2021 om 15:15 heeft infoomatic het volgende > geschreven: > > Hi listmembers, > > I am about to migrate our mailservices to FreeBSD + ZFS. Thus, before > entering the sheer endless stage of performance testing, I thought I > would ask here kindly for all kinds of information. >

Re: ZFS storage and backup

2021-11-14 Thread Sam Kuper
On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 03:14:44PM +0100, infoomatic wrote: > I am about to migrate our mailservices to FreeBSD + ZFS. Thus, before > entering the sheer endless  stage of performance testing, I thought I > would ask here kindly for all kinds of information. > > [..] > > *) storages: any infos on

ZFS storage and backup

2021-11-14 Thread infoomatic
Hi listmembers, I am about to migrate our mailservices to FreeBSD + ZFS. Thus, before entering the sheer endless  stage of performance testing, I thought I would ask here kindly for all kinds of information. My setups are nothing special with few users, however, I would like to have a nice setup