Re: Planning Mail Server (with low resources)

[feizhou at graffiti.net (Feizhou)]

Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:31:02PM +0800, Feizhou wrote:
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>>2) Major: No /var partition which means it comes under /. I suggest 
>>separating /var from / since /var will hold your mail queue. If 
>>possible, get / to the state where it is mounted read only.
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> Having /etc readonly is kind of tricky. Are you sure that is a good
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Well, i guess if the system disk goes, there is not much point...

To avoid filesystem errors on / however makes it worthwhile I hope...a 
read-only / (etc, bin, sbin, lib) would never suffer from filesystem 
errors due to a crash...disk errors yes but then that can be handled by 
RAID.