Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 10:37:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Keith Woodworth <kwoody@citytel.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Server with largish disks Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10405171027370.7218-100000@pop.citytel.net>
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We are looking at putting in a newish server to replace an aging one. Its a POP3/Webmail machine, running BSD/OS One I'd like has 4 x 9gig and 4 x 18gig drives, 2 x 733mhz cpus. Only have about 2500+ active mail accounts on this machine but it is running low on space and we have lots of those accounts being access'd via Openwebmail. Mail spool is /var/mail Question is what would be a good way to partition the drives in the above configuration? I would like acutally to use 3 x 18 gig drives as /var with the 4th as the hotspare and the rest of the file systems (/ /usr) on 3 x 9gig with the 4th as hotspace. Is this a workable way to do it? Also since this has dual cpu's, how is the SMP support in FBSD 5.2? ie: how stable is it? Will the OS take advantage of having the two cpu's? Or would that depend on the software (Postfix, Qpopper (though that maybe replaced) ) to use the xtra cpu? Thanks, Keith
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