ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I like the features of AFS, however, the scenario is this, I have > a single mail server for webmail, IMAP maildirs, spam filtering, virus > scanning etc.
> This mailbox is getting loaded, primarily through IMAP access. I need to > spread the IMAP folders out, so that one of 5 (more or less) front line > mail servers can talk to one of a number of file servers. > What software would your recommend for this? While there are a few people who have had luck with smaller sites, the common wisdom is that mail delivery into AFS will make you sad, if not sooner than eventually. Mail delivery does a lot of small file writes, which is not AFS's best performance point, and AFS also has some limitations in the number of files that can be put into a single directory that are likely to cause problems for you if you really do have over a million files in one directory. (I'd worry about performance for directory lookups there as well; AFS isn't as sophisticated as modern local file systems in that regard.) Personally, for an IMAP server, I would declare IMAP as the one and only access mechanism to the data and then use local RAID storage on the individual IMAP servers. That's what we do at Stanford. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
