Zitat von Ajai Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Ajai,
> The new mail server is running Linux and qmail+vpopmail+MySQL :-) > > All this is great but I need to somehow calculate how many file system > inodes I need to move these mailboxes and support 2800 users. Does > anyone have any formulas/rules-of-thumb/tips ? Also, what would be an > appropriate block size for the fs? > You should use a filesystem with dynamic Inode allocation. I use XFS - it is incredibel fast and a journaling filesystem. It is even NFS-proof, so you can export your vpopmail-home to multiple hosts. IMHO you should not use ext[23], because hosting 1.500.000 emails, stored in Maildirs, you will not see a good performance. Reifers is also a filesystem with dynamic Inode allocation, but in my stress tests it fails under heavy SMP-Load and it has problems with NFS. Last it was unusable to be a cluster FS, because the standby host didn't see any file the origin hosts sees. So feel free to make your own tests - this is meant to be my experience. Cheers Jens Jahr
