[Dovecot] Howto add another disk storage

[Ed W]

On 05/07/2012 11:33, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 2012-07-05 5:45 AM, Kaya Saman <kayasaman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> FreeBSD 8.2 x64 running on VMware
>
> Hi Kaya,
>
> Do you (or anyone else) know of any decent VMWare images (appliance) 
> of current version of FreeBSD? I've been debating on switching from 
> Gentoo to FreeBSD for a while now, and would love to find a ready made 
> appliance (just basic uncustomized server install) that I could start 
> with...

We use Gentoo host + Linux-vservers (+grsec/pax) and very satisfied.  
Linux-vservers gives you something similar to "jails", although it's 
meant to look a little more like full virtualisation than jails does 
(bear in mind I don't have "jails" experience though)

There are plenty of tools included with linux-vservers to clone, build 
and maintain your individual "machines".  It's a complete enough 
"virtualisation" that you can say boot a centos image under your gentoo 
host (or whatever).  It's also extremely lightweight, so there is almost 
zero overhead.  It's a little weak on areas where you need direct access 
to hardware, but there are generally acceptable workarounds - also you 
can't run completely different operating systems since it's not a full 
virtualisation solution

One nice benefit is that all images are just a directory containing your 
linux installation, so it's very easy to backup/snapshot/restore/drop in 
and fix something you bolloxed up/clone to a new machine.

Just my 2p.

Cheers

Ed W