Re: [Dovecot] Maildir feature I'd like to see - SSD for newer messages

2010-12-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Marc Perkel put forth on 12/23/2010 3:18 PM: > On 12/23/2010 1:14 PM, Miha Vrhovnik wrote: >> You guys do know that Dovecot 2 supports alt storage right? > No - what's alt storage? http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox#Alternate_storage Only works with [m]dbox format. Command used to mov

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir feature I'd like to see - SSD for newer messages

2010-12-23 Thread Marc Perkel
On 12/23/2010 1:14 PM, Miha Vrhovnik wrote: "Tom Talpey" wrote on 23.12.2010 21:27:02: On 12/23/2010 3:13 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: I wonder if there's any way to do this. Say there are two different storage devices mounted as follows: /slow-hard-drive/email-directory /fast-ssd-drive/email-di

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir feature I'd like to see - SSD for newer messages

2010-12-23 Thread Miha Vrhovnik
"Tom Talpey" wrote on 23.12.2010 21:27:02: >On 12/23/2010 3:13 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: >> I wonder if there's any way to do this. Say there are two different >> storage devices mounted as follows: >> >> /slow-hard-drive/email-directory >> /fast-ssd-drive/email-directory >> You guys do know that D

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir feature I'd like to see - SSD for newer messages

2010-12-23 Thread Tom Talpey
On 12/23/2010 3:13 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: I wonder if there's any way to do this. Say there are two different storage devices mounted as follows: /slow-hard-drive/email-directory /fast-ssd-drive/email-directory Now suppose there were a way to join these drives so that you could access them as a

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir feature I'd like to see - SSD for newer messages

2010-12-23 Thread Marc Perkel
On 12/23/2010 11:37 AM, Javier de Miguel Rodríguez wrote: On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:27:45 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: SSD drives are very fast but expensive. So I have a crude idea that I'd like to see. May not be practical but would like to get some thoughts on it. You are asking about automat

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir feature I'd like to see - SSD for newer messages

2010-12-23 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Marc Perkel : Some new SSDs use SATA 3 (6gb/sec) with 355/mb/sec read speeds and 215MB/sec write. Put these in raid 0 and it screams! Can you imagine how fast that would be? I'd never raid-0 anything important... What would be nice is if new email were on faster drives with old e

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir feature I'd like to see - SSD for newer messages

2010-12-23 Thread Javier de Miguel Rodríguez
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:27:45 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: SSD drives are very fast but expensive. So I have a crude idea that I'd like to see. May not be practical but would like to get some thoughts on it. You are asking about automatic storage tiering. You can get what you want in a transpara

[Dovecot] Maildir feature I'd like to see - SSD for newer messages

2010-12-23 Thread Marc Perkel
SSD drives are very fast but expensive. So I have a crude idea that I'd like to see. May not be practical but would like to get some thoughts on it. Some new SSDs use SATA 3 (6gb/sec) with 355/mb/sec read speeds and 215MB/sec write. Put these in raid 0 and it screams! Can you imagine how fast