On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Chris Mauritz wrote:
>
>> I'd suggest a gig of RAM and a gig of swap. IDE disks are also cheap so
>> it might be better to upgrade it to something like a 300 or 400gig drive
>> now than to wait until you run out of space in the very near future.
>
> Speaking of future disk expansions. It might be smart move to place all file
> systems (or at least /var/spool/imap) under LVM. That way he can simply add
> new disks into volume group, assign additional space to logical volume where
> /var/spool/imap file system resides, and resize file system to the new size
> of logical volume. The only downtime would be to physically attach new
> disk(s). Everything after that can be performed while the system is up and
> running (and users are using it).
I agree. I would use openfiler and have two front end servers mounting the
disk over NFS. This means you will have to run courier imap.
It is much easier to work with a cluster of NFS mail servers rather than
dealing with the complexity of a murder of cyrus servers.
