Anyone using Linux LVM with cyrus?

[Patrick Boutilier]

Ben,

We have been using LVM for a while (since 0.7 I believe) and have not 
had any troubles with it. We have 130,000 users and use reiserfs.



Ben Poliakoff wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We're preparing to roll out a new cyrus mail system which will handle
> the bulk of our 1700 users' email.  The server platform will be redhat
> linux 7.3 or 8.0.  
> 
> We'd like to use the Linux LVM (at the very least for the mail store
> itself) so that we can back up the system off of read only snapshots
> (courtesy of LVM).
> 
> Has anyone out there used LVM with cyrus imap in an environment as
> large or larger than 1700 users?  If so we'd love to hear about any
> lessons learned (i.e. "Don't do it!") or gotchas...
> 
> Ben