On 27/09/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Dick, > > > > I'm actually starting to think about giving each user their own > > partition, since it's so little hassle. > > > Would that be feasable in an enviroment with 40.000 mail users ? ;-)
I don't run an environment with 40000 users Anyway, do you really want each mail user to have their own home directory?. > I understood that basically Scsi HDD can have 15 partitions max and > IDE/SATA f.e. 64 partitions max. > > Am I mistaken, or do you know more than me ? If you like :) I'm talking about LVM. 64 ide partitions == 64 LVM physical volumes. You build one dirty great volume group out of that, and then create as many logical volumes as you want. A volume group can be made out of physical volumes on multiple disks, so there's no limit to the size of a volume group. (There's probably some internal kernel data structure that is finite, I haven't looked at the code). -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns
