I think when using courier imap, your mail stores will be a single
(possibly large) file. So keep this in mind when you select your
filesystem. I could be wrong, but that's what I remember.
Jonathan
On Sunday, November 7, 2004, at 04:39 PM, Mischa Krilov wrote:
> The story so far:
>
> Hardware:
> So far, no SCSI issues. The installers I've tested see the drive using
> the (I think) aic7xxx driver. So far, so good. It Just Works(tm).
>
> I've dropped in an extra 20GB IDE drive into the system. I am strongly
> considering setting up this system with LVM to make life easier in the
> future. The Gentoo LVM HOWTO has some good info on planning partition
> sizes. In a nutshell, it recommends a small boot and swap partitions,
> putting /opt, /usr, /home, /var, and /tmp in an LVM volume group, and
> keeping /etc, /lib, /mnt, /proc, /sbin, /dev, and /root OUT of the
> LVM, to keep the system bootable if the worst should happen.
>
> Alternatively, I may do three boot-root-swap partitions on the IDE
> drive and just use the entire SCSI disk for /var. Hmm, /home as well,
> makes sense. Whatever FTP server I use, I should be able to configure
> it to use /var, right?
>
> As for choice of file systems, I'm going with the following: boot,
> ext2; /var, ReiserFS; everything else, ext3. Any thoughts on this? I
> understand that Reiser is good for lots of smaller files- seems right
> for the main storage of web/mail data.
>
> Okay, here's my current partitioning scheme as I work through a test
> Debian install.
>
> IDE:
> 50MB ext2 /boot
> 1GB SWAP Swap partition
> 10GB ext3 /
> 8.9GB LVM LVM physical volume
>
> SCSI:
> 18.2GB LVM LVM physical volume
>
> I'll likely stick just /home, /var, and /tmp in the LVM as one big
> (~25GB) Resier volume. Still reading docco, though.
>
> ObLink:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml
>
> I will finalize the issue of having a second proc by Monday at the
> latest. If I can't find one by then, I'm going to go ahead with
> running the system in uniproc mode. But, after all, this will just be
> a home machine with just a few users. I may throw Samba on it, use it
> as a fileserver, but any MP3/backup box I would have would likely be a
> separate machine with mondo disk space.
>
> You're right, Kevin. This box should be plenty beefy for regular
> usage- it's the Gentoo factor that I'm considering- see below.
>
> Finally, I dub this machine "stevemartin." I can't reliably spell
> "Hfuhruhurr."
>
> Distros:
> As of this moment, it's a toss-up between Debian and Gentoo. Thanks to
> Mark for pointing me at a relatively painless Debian installer ISO. A
> big plus in my mind right now is the fact that Debian-installer is
> LVM-aware and has the 2.6 kernel. (see above for partitions)
>
> The final decision largely depends on my getting a second proc in the
> immediate future. I've done a relatively straightforward stage 3
> Gentoo install before, on my P200 laptop, so I know I can follow
> directions- I'm not worried about the details, just the very real
> issue of compile time.
>
> I will use the 2.6 kernel, just for l33tness' sake.
>
> MTA:
> Still a little up in the air here. I've ruled out sendmail because of
> security issues and exim because of a lack of information, feedback,
> support, and confidence. This leaves the decision between postfix and
> qmail. The Rocks Project (thanks, David) has tons of documentation for
> qmail, which is a big plus. I keep hearing reports of postfix being
> easy to manage, but I haven't looked closely enough.
>
> Can anybody talk about procmail or mimedefang? Do I want to use either
> of these?
>
> Web server:
> Apache 2, baby. Let's be cutting-edge for something. Any PHP eye candy
> I'd want to use will likely play nice with the latest and greatest. It
> is a low priority right now- my content (all fifteen words of it) is
> static. This does make life easier.
>
>
> Behind the scenes:
> I plan to set up new DNS service today/tomorrow.
>
> Jeremy: Yes, I've used Xname before, but only as a secondary. I expect
> for this move that I will hop onto an actual DNS server to use as my
> primary. That may change in the future, or towards the end of the > week.
>
> Yikes, five days left. I'm not sure how much testing I'll be able to
> get done!
>
> MDK
>
> PS: Joey, I don't mean to steal thunder from your last presentation
> idea, but I'm under real-world pressure by extrnal forces.
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