On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > Chris Mauritz wrote: > >> I'd suggest a gig of RAM and a gig of swap. IDE disks are also cheap so >> it might be better to upgrade it to something like a 300 or 400gig drive >> now than to wait until you run out of space in the very near future. > > Speaking of future disk expansions. It might be smart move to place all file > systems (or at least /var/spool/imap) under LVM. That way he can simply add > new disks into volume group, assign additional space to logical volume where > /var/spool/imap file system resides, and resize file system to the new size > of logical volume. The only downtime would be to physically attach new > disk(s). Everything after that can be performed while the system is up and > running (and users are using it). I agree. I would use openfiler and have two front end servers mounting the disk over NFS. This means you will have to run courier imap. It is much easier to work with a cluster of NFS mail servers rather than dealing with the complexity of a murder of cyrus servers.