Re: Changing filesystems, backup strategies

2001-09-24 Thread Marco Colombo
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Paul Vallee wrote: No, unless that's the default... No, it's not the default. # mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext2 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/hdb1 on /u01 type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda5 on /u03 type ext2 (rw) /dev/hdd1 on /u04 type ext2 (rw) none on /dev/pts type

Re: Changing filesystems, backup strategies

2001-09-21 Thread Marco Colombo
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Paul Vallee wrote: Hello, We are having performance problems with our mailserver, especially when we try to back it up. I am attempting to set up an incremental backup of the imap spool, and preferably to include only files since the last incremental backup. I am a

Re: Changing filesystems, backup strategies

2001-09-21 Thread Paul Vallee
what it would mean. Thanks for the suggestion, Paul - Original Message - From: Marco Colombo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul Vallee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 12:39 PM Subject: Re: Changing filesystems, backup strategies On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Paul

Changing filesystems, backup strategies

2001-09-19 Thread Paul Vallee
Hello, We are having performance problems with our mailserver, especially when we try to back it up. I am attempting to set up an incremental backup of the imap spool, and preferably to include only files since the last incremental backup. I am a reasonably advanced shell scripter, and I don't

Re: Changing filesystems, backup strategies

2001-09-19 Thread Kevin M. Myer
If so, which filesystem is most appropriate? ext3 is very easy to implement, but I can't imagine that it could make that big of a difference in performance. Reiserfs, jfs, etc. I understand may also be options. I would like to hear the consensus best fs for cyrus from the list, please. Along

Re: Changing filesystems, backup strategies

2001-09-19 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Kevin M. Myer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Along those lines, I'd like to hear any success stories that folks have had with Reiserfs. My one experience with it on my workstation so far has been bad but that was over half a year ago and I'm happily running ext3 on my workstation now so

Re: Changing filesystems, backup strategies

2001-09-19 Thread Joe Ellis
Paul Vallee wrote: Hello, We are having performance problems with our mailserver, especially when we try to back it up. I am attempting to set up an incremental backup of the imap spool, and preferably to include only files since the last incremental backup. I am a reasonably advanced

Re: Changing filesystems, backup strategies

2001-09-19 Thread Darin Perusich
i've been using reiserfs on my linux servers for quote some time now and i've never had a problem. i have my mailstore on the filesystem running on 2 18gb SCA drives running software raid-1 through the kernel, i pulled one of the drives and it kept on kickin. i've been playing around with the sgi

Re: Changing filesystems, backup strategies

2001-09-19 Thread Ken Murchison
Joe Ellis wrote: Paul Vallee wrote: Hello, We are having performance problems with our mailserver, especially when we try to back it up. I am attempting to set up an incremental backup of the imap spool, and preferably to include only files since the last incremental backup. I

Re: Changing filesystems, backup strategies

2001-09-19 Thread Roland Pope
Darin Perusich wrote: with the sgi XFS port which works good. i'm leery of putting it onto production systems, i'd rather not use a 1.0 filesytem. It may be a 1.0 filesystem under Linux, but XFS itself has been well proven. We are using the XFS 1.0.1 patches to the redhat 7.1 kernel on a