Storage upgrade maildir suggestions?

[Daniel van Ham Colchete]

Gotz,

at that level of usage I would just add more drives. Working with
NFS/clustering is not worth it when you are at that level. In the following
months I'll send a e-mail to the list here talking about how I'm using Ceph
FS successfully with Dovecot, but it's a lot of trouble. At the 1TB/2TB/4TB
level, just go out and buy a bigger disk.

As a side note, with too may emails it is always a problem to have too many
small files. I would recommend taking a look at mdbox.

Best,
Daniel Colchete

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 4:17 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator <
goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we start to run out of diskspace soon as our users start to keep mails
> for longer time periods. That's fine, but space consuming.
>
> The maildirs are about 1 TB in total, and not long ago we enabled zlib
> which is very nice.
>
> Now I have some thoughts about the next steps:
>
> a) Migrating the whole system to a new server with more storage?
>
> b) Install a virtual server for the mailsystem and an extra storage
> system may be NFS?
>
> c) Stay with the current server and move all mails to a bigger NFS storage.
>
> The last option c) would be the most easy one for me as I currently have
> NFS space.
>
> Any thoughts? Hints regarding the NFS storage? Pros Cons?
>
> I have seen the dovecot wiki on NFS already and for now we will stay
> with one single dovecot server.
>
>
>     Thanks and regards . Götz
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