Re: Advice: NFS, hardware, SATA vs SAS etc

2019-12-18 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > > Yes. Do any Postfix administrators with busy systems rely on NFS? > > > That seems like a really bad idea, honestly. > So NFS is a poor, outdated choice for mail storage in 2020 for a small/medium > enterprise? On any large number of users some kind of hash is used to distribute email

RE: Advice: NFS, hardware, SATA vs SAS etc

2019-12-17 Thread venbian
> > > > Yes. Do any Postfix administrators with busy systems rely on NFS? > > > > That seems like a really bad idea, honestly. > > > > So NFS is a poor, outdated choice for mail storage in 2020 for a > > small/medium > > enterprise? > > On any large number of users some kind of hash is used to

RE: Advice: NFS, hardware, SATA vs SAS etc

2019-12-17 Thread Patton, Matthew [Contractor]
> > > Yes. Do any Postfix administrators with busy systems rely on NFS? > > That seems like a really bad idea, honestly. > > So NFS is a poor, outdated choice for mail storage in 2020 for a small/medium > enterprise? The problem is one of data consistency and locking. Running a farm of IMAP

Re: Advice: NFS, hardware, SATA vs SAS etc

2019-12-17 Thread venbian
> > Yes. Do any Postfix administrators with busy systems rely on NFS? > > That seems like a really bad idea, honestly. Coy Hile also said: > I haven't used mail systems that had, e.g. /var/mail > on NFS in more than 20 years. So NFS is a poor, outdated choice for mail storage in 2020 for a

Re: Advice: NFS, hardware, SATA vs SAS etc

2019-12-09 Thread Wietse Venema
venbian: > You ruled out cloud solutions? Someone: > Yes. Do any Postfix administrators with busy systems rely on NFS? On 6/12/19 8:12 pm, Wietse Venema wrote: > It can be done, provided that one does not do stupid things like > logging into the NFS server and messing with files that an NFS >

Re: Advice: NFS, hardware, SATA vs SAS etc

2019-12-09 Thread P.V.Anthony
On 6/12/19 8:12 pm, Wietse Venema wrote: venbian: You ruled out cloud solutions? Yes. Do any Postfix administrators with busy systems rely on NFS? It can be done, provided that one does not do stupid things like logging into the NFS server and messing with files that an NFS client is

Re: Advice: NFS, hardware, SATA vs SAS etc

2019-12-06 Thread Wietse Venema
venbian: > > You ruled out cloud solutions? > > Yes. Do any Postfix administrators with busy systems rely on NFS? It can be done, provided that one does not do stupid things like logging into the NFS server and messing with files that an NFS client is actively using. That will result in stale

Re: Advice: NFS, hardware, SATA vs SAS etc

2019-12-05 Thread Coy Hile
On 2019-12-05 14:58, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 2019-12-05 14:52, venbian wrote: You ruled out cloud solutions?  Yes. Do any Postfix administrators with busy systems rely on NFS? That seems like a really bad idea, honestly. I haven't used mail systems that had, e.g. /var/mail on NFS in

Re: Advice: NFS, hardware, SATA vs SAS etc

2019-12-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 2019-12-05 14:52, venbian wrote: > >> You ruled out cloud solutions?  > > Yes. Do any Postfix administrators with busy systems rely on NFS? That seems like a really bad idea, honestly. -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications ph...@caerllewys.net p...@co.ordinate.org Landline:

Re: Advice: NFS, hardware, SATA vs SAS etc

2019-12-05 Thread venbian
> You ruled out cloud solutions? Yes. Do any Postfix administrators with busy systems rely on NFS?

Re: Advice: NFS, hardware, SATA vs SAS etc

2019-12-04 Thread lists
You ruled out cloud solutions? (Original text deleted for brevity.) 

Advice: NFS, hardware, SATA vs SAS etc

2019-12-04 Thread venbian
Hello gurus, As 2020 nears I wanted to ask opinions about the current state of hardware requirements for a small business email platform. $dayjob asked me to enhance our existing platform to improve performance and add redundancy. Main questions (TLDR): Can NFS handle heavy IMAP, LDA, HTTP