> Thanks for the answers, this is helpful. I use reiser for our samba > server and it has never had problems, just wanted to check if there was > something to bear in mind for imap. I will not be using RAID for the > setup, I will just rsync the disks every night and in case of disaster, > mount the "good" one. The rest of the OS is going on a 40G (couldn't > find smaller!)
I'd reconsider using RAID. Users hate losing a day of email and those drives will almost certainly fail. Plus, given that a lot of IMAP is reading, RAID-1 might actually improve your performance (since reads can be interleaved), not to mention improve reliability. John -- John Madden UNIX Systems Engineer Ivy Tech State College [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html