Re: [techtalk] Raid and IMAP

2000-03-22 Thread moebius
Hey Robert, Below are the specs > What do you want to speed up? Or better, what is to slow for your > needs? Where do you think is more perfermance possible? Well, it seems that in mail/IMAP generally the bottleneck is always disk I/O. I am hoping to gain performance from a SCSI software raid

Re: [techtalk] Raid and IMAP

2000-03-22 Thread Robert Siemer
Hi! From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I want to setup a software raid for mail users to boost > I/O while reading the disks. > My question is this, which filesystem to put on the raid. I was initally > thinking /var/spool/mail b/c this (I think) is where all new mail is > stored. Then I started thi

[techtalk] Raid and IMAP

2000-03-22 Thread moebius
Hey All, I don't know if I'm just thinking to much about this but hopefully someone can help. I want to setup a software raid for mail users to boost I/O while reading the disks. The users can access the mail either thru TWIG or pine/elm. My question is this, which filesystem to put on the rai