Best practices for mailbox network file storage?
Is there a current best practice for a shared filesystem backend for mailboxes (in my case, all virtual accounts)? NFS 3/4, GFS2, GlusterFS, other? In the case of the latter ones, is the use of Director necessary? Any specific anti-recommendations? Also, if it matters, I *think* I want to use BackBlaze racks for storage. Also, I've seen recommendations for the filesystem underneath like XFS or ext4 or whatever. Is there a best practice?
Thanks, Drew
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 19:24:12 +0000 "Andy Csillag" andy@thecsillags.com wrote:
Is there a current best practice for a shared filesystem backend for mailboxes (in my case, all virtual accounts)? NFS 3/4, GFS2, GlusterFS, other? In the case of the latter ones, is the use of Director necessary? Any specific anti-recommendations? Also, if it matters, I *think* I want to use BackBlaze racks for storage. Also, I've seen recommendations for the filesystem underneath like XFS or ext4 or whatever. Is there a best practice?
Thanks, Drew
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Il 16/06/2015 21:24, Andy Csillag ha scritto:
Is there a current best practice for a shared filesystem backend for mailboxes (in my case, all virtual accounts)? NFS 3/4, GFS2, GlusterFS, other? In the case of the latter ones, is the use of Director necessary? Any specific anti-recommendations? Also, if it matters, I *think* I want to use BackBlaze racks for storage. Also, I've seen recommendations for the filesystem underneath like XFS or ext4 or whatever. Is there a best practice?
Thanks, Drew
Hi,
I'm using NetApp as storage (with NFS3) and Director is required for shared file system. I suggest to use XFS with CentOS 6 as file system on NFS Server, prior to NetApp we use these and works fine but also ext4 is ok.
I have never hear about success story with GFS2 or GlusterFS, if you do not want surprises use XFS/EXT4 and NFS3.
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Alessio Cecchi
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Andy Csillag
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Marcus Rückert