Storage upgrade maildir suggestions?

[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

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