Re: [Courier-imap] Courier-Imap over NFS or OCFS

2007-01-30 Thread vgrig_us
- Original Message - From: "Brian Candler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [Courier-imap] Courier-Imap over NFS or OCFS > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 09:30:43PM +, Brian Candler wrote: >>

Re: [Courier-imap] Courier-Imap over NFS or OCFS

2007-01-29 Thread Brian Candler
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 09:30:43PM +, Brian Candler wrote: > All I can tell you is that we had a big Reiserfs filesystem get corrupted > last year. Several very experienced sysadmins spent over a week trying to > repair it. They failed. Much of the data was backups from other systems, > which w

Re: [Courier-imap] Courier-Imap over NFS or OCFS

2007-01-29 Thread Brian Candler
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 06:20:44PM -0200, Eduardo Kienetz wrote: > >recovery with ReiserFS - a limitation that the author freely admits. Once > >it's corrupted, everything is lost. > > ... > >Regards, > > > >Brian. > > Sorry for this kinda off-topic but a doubt just arose here :) > What do you mea

Re: [Courier-imap] Courier-Imap over NFS or OCFS

2007-01-29 Thread Eduardo Kienetz
On 1/25/07, Brian Candler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:58:03PM +0100, Alan Marco IsiMan wrote: > ... > Mirrored pairs of disks will be better, but still nowhere near what the > Netapp achieves (although maybe sufficient for your purposes, given that the > NetApp is very e

Re: [Courier-imap] Courier-Imap over NFS or OCFS

2007-01-27 Thread Brian Candler
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 08:11:53PM +0100, Peter Mann wrote: > > However, what I said was that *sqwebmail* does not have the ability to proxy > > to different sqwebmail servers, and that remains true. > > yes, i know - because "It accesses maildirs directly, and does not use > an IMAP server" But

Re: [Courier-imap] Courier-Imap over NFS or OCFS

2007-01-27 Thread vgrig_us
- Original Message - From: "Peter Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brian Candler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Alan Marco IsiMan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [Courier-imap] Courier-Imap over NF

Re: [Courier-imap] Courier-Imap over NFS or OCFS

2007-01-27 Thread Peter Mann
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:06:31PM +, Brian Candler wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:24:53AM +0100, Peter Mann wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 08:56:51AM +, Brian Candler wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:58:03PM +0100, Alan Marco IsiMan wrote: > > > > We're going to install a n

Re: [Courier-imap] Courier-Imap over NFS or OCFS

2007-01-25 Thread Brian Candler
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:24:53AM +0100, Peter Mann wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 08:56:51AM +, Brian Candler wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:58:03PM +0100, Alan Marco IsiMan wrote: > > > We're going to install a new email platform and we have a big doubt. > > > What is better for ou

Re: [Courier-imap] Courier-Imap over NFS or OCFS

2007-01-25 Thread Brian Candler
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 08:56:51AM +, Brian Candler wrote: > As for OCFS: I have no experience. I see that v2 is supposed to have POSIX > filesystem semantics, which v1 didn't; Maildir relies heavily on POSIX > semantics, in particular atomic moves of files between directories. A point to note

Re: [Courier-imap] Courier-Imap over NFS or OCFS

2007-01-25 Thread Peter Mann
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 08:56:51AM +, Brian Candler wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:58:03PM +0100, Alan Marco IsiMan wrote: > > We're going to install a new email platform and we have a big doubt. > > What is better for our /var/mail, OCFSv2 or NFS? I mean, SAN or NAS. > > There'll be thr

Re: [Courier-imap] Courier-Imap over NFS or OCFS

2007-01-25 Thread Brian Candler
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:58:03PM +0100, Alan Marco IsiMan wrote: > We're going to install a new email platform and we have a big doubt. > What is better for our /var/mail, OCFSv2 or NFS? I mean, SAN or NAS. > There'll be three machines reading /var/mail and writing in it (webmail > write in se

[Courier-imap] Courier-Imap over NFS or OCFS

2007-01-24 Thread Alan Marco IsiMan
Hello, We're going to install a new email platform and we have a big doubt. What is better for our /var/mail, OCFSv2 or NFS? I mean, SAN or NAS. There'll be three machines reading /var/mail and writing in it (webmail write in sent folder and courier-imap in all folders). Courier-Imap is good fo