On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 04:59:18PM +0100, Joachim Schipper wrote: > > Yes. What you want to do is not theoretically impossible, but it is > highly impractical. Postfix manages its spool by moving files about; > move is quick within a filesystem, but no faster than copy across > filesystems. (And postfix has apparently chosen not to support this at > all.) > > So this is, indeed, not a good idea. If both disks are of similar speed, > you might want to run a RAID. >
I set it up this way because normally deferred is not used, so I put that on a spare disk I had. As wd0 is always spun up, I thought I could get away with putting the smaller active spools on the main disk. I'll move /var/spool/postfix in its entirety to the spare disk. Cheers, Craig.
