Re: Queue directories on faster media?

2012-01-30 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
> > Why are you storing maildirs in the queue directory? > > I think it is a legacy thing from a very old how-to. Note it's for > virtual accounts, so no /home directories. What's the more standard > place to put them if I may ask? Anywhere else, like /var/spool/mail (just an idea) > Thanks.

Re: Queue directories on faster media?

2012-01-30 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:00:08PM -0800, Ori Bani wrote: > > Otherwise, you're trying to solve some problem that's motivating > > this question, so state that instead. > > No, no problem. Only attempting to future-proof things. I anticipate > mail volume to grow in the future, and as I have ac

Re: Queue directories on faster media?

2012-01-30 Thread Ori Bani
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:47:39PM -0800, Ori Bani wrote: > >> I'm curious to get feedback on the idea of mounting all the postfix >> queue directories on a faster media (SSD drive in this case). > > The answer depends on your real goals.

Re: Queue directories on faster media?

2012-01-30 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:47:39PM -0800, Ori Bani wrote: > I'm curious to get feedback on the idea of mounting all the postfix > queue directories on a faster media (SSD drive in this case). The answer depends on your real goals. Mounting the spool on an SSD is only your real goal if you're are

Re: Queue directories on faster media?

2012-01-30 Thread Simon Brereton
On 30 January 2012 12:49, /dev/rob0 wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 01:09:29AM -0800, Ori Bani wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt >> wrote: >> > * Ori Bani : >> >> I'm curious to get feedback on the idea of mounting all the >> >> postfix queue directories on a faster me

Re: Queue directories on faster media?

2012-01-30 Thread /dev/rob0
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 01:09:29AM -0800, Ori Bani wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt > wrote: > > * Ori Bani : > >> I'm curious to get feedback on the idea of mounting all the > >> postfix queue directories on a faster media (SSD drive in > >> this case). > >> > >> In my

Re: Queue directories on faster media?

2012-01-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/30/2012 1:47 AM, Ori Bani wrote: > Does that make any sense? Is there adverse risk putting the queue > directories on non-RAID fast media? SSDs, both MLC and SLC, do fail, just not the same failure modes as SRDs. Thus you need to use a mirrored pair for the Postfix spool, just as you'd do

Re: Queue directories on faster media?

2012-01-30 Thread Ori Bani
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Ori Bani : >> Hello, >> >> I'm curious to get feedback on the idea of mounting all the postfix >> queue directories on a faster media (SSD drive in this case). >> >> In my case, I have virtual maildirs under /var/spool/postfix and those

Re: Queue directories on faster media?

2012-01-30 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Ori Bani : > Hello, > > I'm curious to get feedback on the idea of mounting all the postfix > queue directories on a faster media (SSD drive in this case). > > In my case, I have virtual maildirs under /var/spool/postfix and those > would be relocated to elsewhere (onto slower normal media) bec

Queue directories on faster media?

2012-01-29 Thread Ori Bani
Hello, I'm curious to get feedback on the idea of mounting all the postfix queue directories on a faster media (SSD drive in this case). In my case, I have virtual maildirs under /var/spool/postfix and those would be relocated to elsewhere (onto slower normal media) because the faster (SSD) media