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Hello, Arne. I try to build storage server for my home (I have a LOT of media files) with FreeBSD 7, 5xHDD (WD 500Gb) and geom_raid5 ("simple" version from perforce, beacuse http://home.tiscali.de/cmdr_faako/geom_raid5.tbz is not patched for FreeBSD7). Array & FS were created with default arguments: # graid5 label storage ad6 ad8 ad10 ad12 ad14 # newfs -O2 -U /dev/raid5/storage

...I understand, that I will not safe from fire, PSU failure and thing slike this. I selected hardware platform: Intel Q35-based MoBo with 6xSATA-II ports (all of them is chipset-based, so no SiliconImage/JMicron/Whatever crappy controllers), some low-end Core2Duo, 2Gb of memory. Storage will be 5x500Gb WD HDDs for RAID + one small HDD for boot, system, swap, etc. I want to have 2Tb (ok, not real Tb, I know) of "protected" storage. I want to have maximum speed via 1Gb network, because graphic files are big and should open fast. Not as fast as local ones, I understand that, but speeds a...

Hi, I just finished setting up a functional design with Dovecot+Sieve and it works like a charm. However I'm having serious doubts about the scalability of this. Here is part of a discussion we're having here: About Dovecot+Sieve. What happens here is that your MTA is configured to pass _all_ email to Dovecot which is configured as a LDA. In practice this means this in the Exim