dovecot - Jun 2015 - Best practices for mailbox network file storage?

Is there a current best practice for a shared filesystem backend for mailboxes
(in my case, all virtual accounts)?? NFS 3/4, GFS2, GlusterFS, other?? In the
case of the latter ones, is the use of Director necessary?? Any specific
anti-recommendations?? Also, if it matters, I *think* I want to use BackBlaze
racks for storage.? Also, I've seen recommendations for the filesystem
underneath like XFS or ext4 or whatever.? Is there a best practice?

Thanks,
Drew

On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 19:24:12 +0000
"Andy Csillag" <andy at thecsillags.com> wrote:
> Is there a current best practice for a shared filesystem backend for
> mailboxes (in my case, all virtual accounts)?? NFS 3/4, GFS2,
> GlusterFS, other?? In the case of the latter ones, is the use of
> Director necessary?? Any specific anti-recommendations?? Also, if it
> matters, I *think* I want to use BackBlaze racks for storage.? Also,
> I've seen recommendations for the filesystem underneath like XFS or
> ext4 or whatever.? Is there a best practice?
> 
> Thanks,
> Drew
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/NFS

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Il 16/06/2015 21:24, Andy Csillag ha scritto:
> Is there a current best practice for a shared filesystem backend for
mailboxes (in my case, all virtual accounts)?  NFS 3/4, GFS2, GlusterFS, other? 
In the case of the latter ones, is the use of Director necessary?  Any specific
anti-recommendations?  Also, if it matters, I *think* I want to use BackBlaze
racks for storage.  Also, I've seen recommendations for the filesystem
underneath like XFS or ext4 or whatever.  Is there a best practice?
>
> Thanks,
> Drew
>
Hi,

I'm using NetApp as storage (with NFS3) and Director is required for 
shared file system. I suggest to use XFS with CentOS 6 as file system on 
NFS Server, prior to NetApp we use these and works fine but also ext4 is ok.

I have never hear about success story with GFS2 or GlusterFS, if you do 
not want surprises use XFS/EXT4 and NFS3.

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