From: m (m at telerama dot com)
Date: Tue Jun 01 2004 - 11:05:35 EDT
> From: Ralf Hildebrandt <>
> Reply-To:
> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:00:30 +0200
> To:
> Subject: NFS Maildirs
>
> That plan is maybe to get rid of a locally attached RAID on the
> mailboxserver and to use a network attached storage (which already
> exists, the actual product name is not known to me - but I'll find out).
>
> 1. Does any network storage platform come to mind as being
> particularly fast (in terms of "postfix needs to write mails to
> maildir, while clients hammer away using POP3 and IMAP) while being
> reasonably economical?
>
> We have an average of 13.000 Logins/h -- POP/IMAP
>
> Note that the network storage is not exclusively used by us only,
> but is being shared.
>
> 2. Will any NFS solution scale? If not, what alternative is there?
I have quite a bit of experience with NFS hardware. Before I answer any
questions, though, I have an improtant one:
What is the budget? High-performance NFS hardware is VERY expensive. It
becomes even moreso when fallback and failsafe conditions are included in
the specifications.
I'd like to help you; I just want more info before giving any advice.
Mark Nernberg
>
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> Ralf Hildebrandt
> my current spamtrap
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> I figure I'll have about 30 kids and six or seven generations down the
> road I'll have my own fair-size nation to rule over. And when we get
> nukes, as we surely shall, we shall wage unlimited war against the
> Empire of Microsoft. -- Joe Thompson
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