[Dovecot] Best Cluster Storage

[Henrique Fernandes]

I have considered the idea, but we just change from mbox to maildir about 4
months ago, and we have many problens with some accouts. We were using dsync
to migrate.

But once we choose mdbox we are sticky to dovecot, or gona have to migrate
all users again if we choose to use another imap server.

But  thanks!

[]'sf.rique


On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Ed W <lists at wildgooses.com> wrote:

> On 20/01/2011 16:20, Henrique Fernandes wrote:
>
>>
>> Same question!
>>
>> I have about 1TB used and it takes 22 hrs to backup maildirs!
>>
>> I have problens with ocfs2 in fouding the file!
>>
>
> Just an idea, but have you evaluated performance of mdbox (new dovecot
> format) on your storage devices?  It appears to be a gentle hybrid of mbox
> and maildir, with many mails packed into a single file (which might increase
> your performance due to fewer stat calls), but there is more than one file
> per folder, so some of the mbox limitations are avoided?
>
> I haven't personally tried it, but I think you can see the theoretical
> appeal?
>
> Good luck
>
> Ed W
>