From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 29 01:11:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DAD216A41F for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:11:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aanton@spintech.ro) Received: from smtpx.spintech.ro (smtpx.spintech.ro [81.180.92.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A502843D4C for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:11:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aanton@spintech.ro) Received: from laura-axiomeda (unknown [11.0.0.25]) by smtpx.spintech.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id A17C13A4A8 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:11:35 +0000 (UTC) X-Laura: version 0.0.1b10-frustratus proxied X-Laura-Remote-IP: 10.0.0.2 Received: from [10.0.0.2] (beastie [10.0.0.2]) by smtpx.spintech.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26BD93A4A7 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:11:35 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <433B3F41.8060004@spintech.ro> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 04:11:29 +0300 From: Alin-Adrian Anton Organization: Spintech Security Systems User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041229) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: journaling fs and large mailbox format X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: aanton@spintech.ro List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:11:33 -0000 Dear Hackers, First of all thank you for your time and attention. I am in the position to implement a large-scale mail server and I will never go for anything else but FreeBSD (fixation?). It should be able to handle graceously 4000 e-mail accounts where a minimum of 50 Mb/mailbox would be a requirement. In the begining, it is desirable that users could use as much free space as available, so this implies some gigabytes/mailbox. I don't know if the mbox format can handle this, and I know Maildir cannot handle this on UFS2 standard install, no matter of soft-updates. (because it exhaustes the free nodes) So I currently have no solution for this stuff. I was wondering what is the status of Journaling File Systems on FreeBSD? Any which is usable and mature, with write access? XFS would fit amazingly well with Maildir, but.. I doubt it's anything else but readonly. So any suggestion would really help a lot. Thank's in advance. Yours Sincerely, -- Alin-Adrian Anton GPG keyID 0x183087BA (B129 E8F4 7B34 15A9 0785 2F7C 5823 ABA0 1830 87BA) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x183087BA "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire