On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 15:33 -0700, Andrew Morgan wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Rich Graves wrote: > > > My question: So is *anyone* here happy with Cyrus on ext3? We're a small > > site, only 3200 users, 246GB mail. I'd really rather not try anything more > > exotic for supportability reasons, but I'm getting worried that our planned > > move from Solaris 9/VxFS to RHEL4/ext3 on significantly newer and faster > > hardware is going to be a downgrade. > > We run Cyrus on ext3 under Debian Linux without complaints here. We have > approximately 35000 mailboxes/users split between 2 backend servers. > Each backend server is connected to an EMC Cx500 SAN (no shared access or > anything fancy) with 800GB of mail spool each. The commands used to build > the filesystems were: > > mkfs -t ext3 -j -m 1 -O dir_index /dev/sdb1 > tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/sdb1 > > The filesystem is mounted like so: > > /dev/sdb1 /private ext3 defaults,data=ordered,noatime 0 2 > > If you want more information, just ask. :) How big is your journal? I have instructions for determining the size here, because it's non-obvious: http://nakedape.cc/wiki/PlatformNotes_2fLinuxNotes (BTW, you can drop the 'defaults' from the entry in your fstab; 'defaults' exists to fill the column in the table when nothing else is there.) Wil -- Wil Cooley <wcooley@xxxxxxxxxxx> Naked Ape Consulting, Ltd
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