Am 21.06.16 um 16:09 schrieb Marcus Rueckert:
On 2016-06-21 07:17, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator 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.
FC or iSCSI as storage.
and always have a lvm layer between your HW and the FS. that way you can easily attach more disk to the stripe set and grow your storage that way.
darix
Hi Darix,
thanks for that feedback. Currently we are moving away in lot of areas from iscsi as it is to mutch maintenance for us. But may be we go with a small one for the mailsystem ...
Regards . Götz