Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-31 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 07:47:31AM -0500, Nik Conwell wrote: > > On Dec 30, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Shawn Nock wrote: > > [...] > > > a scripted rename of mailboxes to balance partition utilization when > > we > > add another partition. > > Just curious - how do stop people from accessing their mai

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-31 Thread Shawn Nock
Nik Conwell wrote: > > On Dec 30, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Shawn Nock wrote: > > [...] > >> a scripted rename of mailboxes to balance partition utilization when we >> add another partition. > > Just curious - how do stop people from accessing their mailboxes during > the time they are being renamed an

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-31 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 11:47 +0100, LALOT Dominique wrote: >> Thanks for everybody. That was an interesting thread. Nobody seems to >> use a NetApp appliance, may be due to NFS architecture problems. > > Personally, I'd never use NFS for anything.

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-31 Thread Scott Likens
Ah the saga of Hans Reiser. That unfortunately is the Downfall of Reiserfs. Yes, his company has disappeared, and a "void" has appeared from his lack of presence? However, the Reiserfs4 patch set is current against the linux kernel 2.6.28 (see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-31 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 15:46 +0200, Janne Peltonen wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 07:38:21AM -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > In regards to ext3 I'd pay attention to the vintage of problem reports > > and performance issues; ext3 of several years ago is not the ext3 of > > today, many improv

Re: Basic question

2008-12-31 Thread Dan White
Jason Voorhees wrote: > Hi there: > > I'm planning to use Cyrus IMAP and OpenLDAP to authenticate users. > Long time ago I used to configure Cyrus IMAP + Cyrus SASL using > saslauthd with pam module. It was something simple. > > Then I used to configure Cyrus IMAP + Cyrus SASL using saslauthd with

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-31 Thread Janne Peltonen
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 04:58:57AM -0800, Scott Likens wrote: > I would not discount using reiserfs (v3) by any means. It's still by far a > better choice for a filesystem with Cyrus then Ext3 or Ext4. I haven't really > seen anyone do any tests with Ext4, but I imagine it should be about par for

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-31 Thread <::.. Teresa_II ..::>
У вт, 2008-12-30 у 17:49 +0100, LALOT Dominique пише: > Once, there was a bad shutdown corrupting ext3fs and we spent 6 hours > on an fsck. Actually i do use reiserfs over 2 years on cyrus-imapd. It performs great even with realy big count of files in imap spool folders. But i dont know how it wi

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-31 Thread Janne Peltonen
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 07:38:21AM -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > In regards to ext3 I'd pay attention to the vintage of problem reports > and performance issues; ext3 of several years ago is not the ext3 of > today, many improvements have been made. "data=writeback" mode can help > performa

cyrus-sasl pam mysql connections are not getting closed

2008-12-31 Thread ram
I am using cyrus-sasl with pam mysql ( on Centos5) The mysql is on a remote server. After some time I find that there are too many connections to mysql open ( using netstat) I restart saslauthd but still these dont away How do I check what the mysql connection is being used for ? and how do I av

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-31 Thread Eric Luyten
> -- Nik Conwell is rumored to have mumbled on 31. Dezember 2008 > 07:47:31 -0500 regarding Re: choosing a file system: > > > Just curious - how do stop people from accessing their mailboxes > > during the time they are being renamed and moved to another partition? I moved a few thousand mailbo

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-31 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
-- Nik Conwell is rumored to have mumbled on 31. Dezember 2008 07:47:31 -0500 regarding Re: choosing a file system: Just curious - how do stop people from accessing their mailboxes during the time they are being renamed and moved to another partition? I just do a grep on the username in the

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-31 Thread Scott Likens
Hi, I would not discount using reiserfs (v3) by any means. It's still by far a better choice for a filesystem with Cyrus then Ext3 or Ext4. I haven't really seen anyone do any tests with Ext4, but I imagine it should be about par for the course for Ext3. as far as the NFS... NFS isn't i

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-31 Thread Nik Conwell
On Dec 30, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Shawn Nock wrote: [...] > a scripted rename of mailboxes to balance partition utilization when > we > add another partition. Just curious - how do stop people from accessing their mailboxes during the time they are being renamed and moved to another partition?

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-31 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 11:47 +0100, LALOT Dominique wrote: > Thanks for everybody. That was an interesting thread. Nobody seems to > use a NetApp appliance, may be due to NFS architecture problems. Personally, I'd never use NFS for anything. Over the years I've had way to many NFS related problems

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-31 Thread LALOT Dominique
Thanks for everybody. That was an interesting thread. Nobody seems to use a NetApp appliance, may be due to NFS architecture problems. I believe I'll look to ext4 that seemed to be available in last kernel, and also to Solaris, but we are not enough to support another OS. Dom And Happy New Year