Re: Put only cyrus.index and cyrus.cache in metadata partitions ?

2010-08-26 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 05:19:25PM +0200, Eric Luyten wrote: > Hello, > > > I understand the cyrus.header file is the only irreplacable one, i.e. > cyrus.index and cyrus.cache can be regenerated using 'reconstruct' > while cyrus.header, a very small (150 bytes or thereabout) and stable > file, co

Re: Reducing ZFS blocksize to improve Cyrus write performance ?

2010-08-26 Thread Vincent Fox
So to my mind, the downside of ZFS flush disable is. Data on disk may not be as current in the unlikely event of power outage. In point of fact MOST filesystem do not operate in journalled data mode anyhow and most people just don't realize this fact. The default for Linux EXT filesystems

Put only cyrus.index and cyrus.cache in metadata partitions ?

2010-08-26 Thread Eric Luyten
Hello, I understand the cyrus.header file is the only irreplacable one, i.e. cyrus.index and cyrus.cache can be regenerated using 'reconstruct' while cyrus.header, a very small (150 bytes or thereabout) and stable file, contains some vital mailbox identification data. I observe a cyrus.header fi

Re: Reducing ZFS blocksize to improve Cyrus write performance ?

2010-08-26 Thread Eric Luyten
On Tue, August 10, 2010 4:06 pm, Gary Mills wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 09:03:44PM +0200, Pascal Gienger wrote: > >> Am 09.08.10 19:46, schrieb Vincent Fox: >> >>> * Turn off ZFS cache flushing >>> set zfs:zfs_nocacheflush = 1 >> >> For hardware (fiberchannel, iSCSI, SSA, ...) arrays with thei