Am 21.06.16 um 16:09 schrieb Marcus Rueckert: > On 2016-06-21 07:17, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote: >> Hi, >> >> we start to run out of diskspace soon as our users start to keep mails >> for longer time periods. That's fine, but space consuming. >> >> The maildirs are about 1 TB in total, and not long ago we enabled zlib >> which is very nice. >> >> Now I have some thoughts about the next steps: >> >> a) Migrating the whole system to a new server with more storage? >> >> b) Install a virtual server for the mailsystem and an extra storage >> system may be NFS? >> >> c) Stay with the current server and move all mails to a bigger NFS >> storage. >> >> The last option c) would be the most easy one for me as I currently have >> NFS space. >> >> Any thoughts? Hints regarding the NFS storage? Pros Cons? >> >> I have seen the dovecot wiki on NFS already and for now we will stay >> with one single dovecot server. > > FC or iSCSI as storage. > > and always have a lvm layer between your HW and the FS. that way you > can easily attach > more disk to the stripe set and grow your storage that way. > > darix > Hi Darix,
thanks for that feedback. Currently we are moving away in lot of areas
from iscsi as it is to mutch maintenance for us. But may be we go with a
small one for the mailsystem ...
Regards . Götz
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