Partitioning advice

[Andre Nathan]

Asking differently, is it worth putting the spool metadata on a separate
partition, considering that the spool itself is already spread among
several partitions, and thus I/O should be split too?

Has anyone tried both alternatives?

Thanks,
Andre


On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 10:21 -0200, Andre Nathan wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm planning for a new Cyrus install, for which I'll use a multiple
> partitioning scheme. The idea so far is to have a partion for /
> and /var/lib/imap (call it the metadata partition), and multiple
> partitions for the spool data. The idea is to improve I/O by having
> the /var/lib/imap data on a separate partition.
> 
> However, I've just read that Cyrus 2.3.x is able to store the spool
> metadata on diffent partitions. Would it be an advantage to use that
> feature too, storing these metadata on the metadata partition, together
> with the /var/lib/imap stuff, or would I only see an improvement if the
> spool metadata is on yet another partition?
> 
> Any other advice on partitioning strategies is welcome.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Andre
> 
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