On 26.08.2013, at 20:35, Charles Marcus <cmar...@media-brokers.com> wrote: > On 2013-08-24 4:47 AM, Michael Grimm <trash...@odo.in-berlin.de> wrote:
>> Don't ask me why I did chose 100m, I cannot remember;-) Ok, if one of such >> mdbox files will become corrupt, I will loose a lot of mail, but on the >> other hand I am running two dovecot servers in parallel (replicator/dsync) >> and I do take hourly snapshots (ZFS) of my mail storage file system as well. > > Well, if they are stored on ZFS, I guess the chances of corruption are > extremely minimal (much less than for other filesystems)... Haven't had any file system corruption for a very long time now, even before switching to ZFS. > I'm curious, is this on FreeBSD? Yes I migrated my servers to FreeBSD some years ago, and I am using ZFS for approx. two years now. > Linux? I'm interested in details, as I'd love to be able to use ZFS on my > gentoo linux box without having to enable modules... Sorry, but I never used ZFS with Linux. But, ZFS and snapshots as such are pretty awesome and helped me a lot in the past when it comes to "recovering from human mistakes" ;-) Regrads, Michael