[Dovecot] Multiple Patitions with with mdbox

[Dovecot-GDH]

> How do you handle >> 10 TB mailstore?

ZFS: no need to fsck.
GlusterFS: "always-online".

On Nov 8, 2011, at 6:19 AM, Peer Heinlein wrote:

> 
> Having > 10 TByte mailstore filesystem-checks takes too much time.
> 
> At the moment we have four different partitions, but I don't like to set 
> symlinks or LDAP-flags to sort customers and their domains to there 
> individual mount-point. I'd like to work with mdbox:/mail/%d/%n to calculate 
> the path automatically.
> 
> How do you handle >> 10 TB mailstore?
> 
> I'm very interested in the feature "alternative mailstore" with mdbox, 
> because that makes it very easy to use at least TWO filesystems without any 
> tricky configuration.
> 
> I think I'd love to have <n> alternative mailstores. Why does dbox doesn't 
> look for its m.*-files in more then two directorys? Sure, looking in 4 
> directorys would lead to four disc operations, but maybe it could be very 
> helpful.
> 
> Peer
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