Re: Backup from huge Maildirs

> Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> > On 13.09.07 22:38, Raúl Alexis Betancor Santana wrote:
> >> I suggest you XFS over a LVM of SoftRaid5 for Maildir storage, fast, stable
> >> and scale very well.
> >
> > raid5 for maildir storage and fast? I don't think so.

On 18.09.07 10:13, bon wrote:
> pretty fast, yes. what would you suggest instead?

raid10 (aka raid 1+0, e.g. stripe of small mirrors). Raid5 tends to be slow on filesystems where writes are very often, like mail directories.

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