choosing a file system

2008-12-30 Thread LALOT Dominique
Hello, We are using cyrus-imap for a long time. Our architecture is a SAN from EMC and thanks to our "DELL support" we are obliged to install redhat. The only option we have is to use ext3fs on rather old kernels. We have 4000 accounts for staff and 2 for students The system is rather fast and

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-30 Thread Robert Banz
On Dec 30, 2008, at 8:49 AM, LALOT Dominique wrote: > Hello, > > We are using cyrus-imap for a long time. Our architecture is a SAN > from EMC and thanks to our "DELL support" we are obliged to install > redhat. The only option we have is to use ext3fs on rather old > kernels. We have 4000

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-30 Thread Pascal Gienger
LALOT Dominique wrote: > zfs (but we should switch to solaris or freebsd and throw away our costly > SAN) Why that? SAN volumes are running very fine with Solaris 10 hosts (SPARC and x86). You have extended multipathing (symmetric and asymmetric) onboard. Solaris accepts nearly all Q-Logic FC c

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-30 Thread Robert Banz
On Dec 30, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Pascal Gienger wrote: > LALOT Dominique wrote: > >> zfs (but we should switch to solaris or freebsd and throw away our >> costly >> SAN) > > Why that? SAN volumes are running very fine with Solaris 10 hosts > (SPARC > and x86). You have extended multipathing (sym

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-30 Thread John Madden
> Once, there was a bad shutdown corrupting ext3fs and we spent 6 hours on an > fsck. > Next we discovered that our backup system was going slower and slower. We > just pointed out that it was due to fragmentation, and guess what, there's > no online defrag tool for ext3. Sure it isn't due to the

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-30 Thread Vincent Fox
We run Solaris 10 on our Cyrus mail-store backends. The mail is stored in a ZFS pool. The ZFS pool are composed of 4 SAN volumes in RAID-10. The active and failover server of each backend pair have "fiber multipath" enabled so their dual connections to the SAN switch ensure that if an HBA or SAN

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-30 Thread Pascal Gienger
Robert Banz wrote: > At my last job, we had explored a Dell/EMC SAN at one point. Those > folks don't seem to understand the idea that Fibre Channel is a well > established standard -- they only expect you to connect their > supported stack of hardware and software, otherwise they don't wanna > t

Basic question

2008-12-30 Thread Jason Voorhees
Hi there: I'm planning to use Cyrus IMAP and OpenLDAP to authenticate users. Long time ago I used to configure Cyrus IMAP + Cyrus SASL using saslauthd with pam module. It was something simple. Then I used to configure Cyrus IMAP + Cyrus SASL using saslauthd with ldap module and /etc/saslauthd.con

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-30 Thread LALOT Dominique
John, No, that was due to framentation. A fresh copy (one night to copy, then 2 hours to backup, 6 times faster then) solved that problem. There's a filefrag utility, and for some mailboxes, it was over 60%. I have 3 500Mo spools at the moment. And one is left for the copy.. You copy first your d

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-30 Thread Andrew Morgan
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, LALOT Dominique wrote: > Hello, > > We are using cyrus-imap for a long time. Our architecture is a SAN from EMC > and thanks to our "DELL support" we are obliged to install redhat. The only > option we have is to use ext3fs on rather old kernels. We have 4000 accounts > for st

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-30 Thread Shawn Nock
LALOT Dominique wrote: > Hello, > > We are using cyrus-imap for a long time. Our architecture is a SAN from EMC > and thanks to our "DELL support" we are obliged to install redhat. The only > option we have is to use ext3fs on rather old kernels. We have 4000 accounts > for staff and 2 for stu

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-30 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 02:43:14PM -0700, Shawn Nock wrote: > Bron and the fastmail guys could tell you more about reiserfs... we've > used RH&SuSE/reiserfs/EMC for quite a while and we are very happy. Yeah, sure could :) You can probably find plenty of stuff from me in the archives about our set