Re: Changing filesystems, backup strategies

2001-09-24 Thread Marco Colombo
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Paul Vallee wrote: > No, unless that's the default... No, it's not the default. > # mount > /dev/hda1 on / type ext2 (rw) > none on /proc type proc (rw) > /dev/hdb1 on /u01 type ext2 (rw) > /dev/hda5 on /u03 type ext2 (rw) > /dev/hdd1 on /u04 type ext2 (rw) > none on /dev/p

Re: Changing filesystems, backup strategies

2001-09-21 Thread Paul Vallee
if that's what it would mean. Thanks for the suggestion, Paul - Original Message - From: "Marco Colombo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paul Vallee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 12:39 PM Subject: Re: Cha

Re: Changing filesystems, backup strategies

2001-09-21 Thread Marco Colombo
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Paul Vallee wrote: > Hello, > > We are having performance problems with our mailserver, especially when we > try to back it up. I am attempting to set up an incremental backup of the > imap spool, and preferably to include only files since the last incremental > backup. I am

Re: Changing filesystems, backup strategies

2001-09-19 Thread Roland Pope
"Darin Perusich " wrote: > with the sgi XFS port which works good. i'm leery of putting it onto > production systems, i'd rather not use a 1.0 filesytem. It may be a 1.0 filesystem under Linux, but XFS itself has been well proven. We are using the XFS 1.0.1 patches to the redhat 7.1 kernel on a nu

Re: Changing filesystems, backup strategies

2001-09-19 Thread Ken Murchison
Joe Ellis wrote: > > Paul Vallee wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > We are having performance problems with our mailserver, especially when we > > try to back it up. I am attempting to set up an incremental backup of the > > imap spool, and preferably to include only files since the last incremental

Re: Changing filesystems, backup strategies

2001-09-19 Thread Darin Perusich
i've been using reiserfs on my linux servers for quote some time now and i've never had a problem. i have my mailstore on the filesystem running on 2 18gb SCA drives running software raid-1 through the kernel, i pulled one of the drives and it kept on kickin. i've been playing around with the sgi

Re: Changing filesystems, backup strategies

2001-09-19 Thread Joe Ellis
Paul Vallee wrote: > > Hello, > > We are having performance problems with our mailserver, especially when we > try to back it up. I am attempting to set up an incremental backup of the > imap spool, and preferably to include only files since the last incremental > backup. I am a reasonably advan

Re: Changing filesystems, backup strategies

2001-09-19 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Kevin M. Myer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Along those lines, I'd like to hear any success stories that folks have > had with Reiserfs. My one experience with it on my workstation so far has > been bad but that was over half a year ago and I'm happily running ext3 on > my workstation now so

Re: Changing filesystems, backup strategies

2001-09-19 Thread Kevin M. Myer
> If so, which filesystem is most appropriate? ext3 is very easy to implement, > but I can't imagine that it could make that big of a difference in > performance. Reiserfs, jfs, etc. I understand may also be options. I would > like to hear the consensus best fs for cyrus from the list, please. Al

Changing filesystems, backup strategies

2001-09-19 Thread Paul Vallee
Hello, We are having performance problems with our mailserver, especially when we try to back it up. I am attempting to set up an incremental backup of the imap spool, and preferably to include only files since the last incremental backup. I am a reasonably advanced shell scripter, and I don't ne