Partitioning Scheme

[Brad Galbraith]

Thank you. Looks like relatime would be a good route.

Can you confirm a simple partition scheme as such? It's been many years 
since I've done this (hence my old school /boot) and I hate doing things 
twice.

/ 6GB
/tmp 1GB
/var/spool/imap/  900GB with relatime mount option

Thanks again,

Brad

Chloé Desoutter wrote:
> Le 02/01/2014 22:43, Brad Galbraith a écrit :
>> *So something like this then?
>>
>>  / 6GB
>>  /tmp 1GB
>>  /var/spool/imap/  900GB
>>
>>
>> Don't add*
>>
>> /var/lib/mysql/
>> /var/lib/imap/
>>
>> I'll read up on relatime or noatime  but would you mind expanding on 
>> that a bit? The advantage with kolab?
> Basically, w/o relatime or noatime, each time a file will be accessed, 
> the file's metadata (access time) will need to be written on disk. 
> This adds a slight amount of I/O especially when dealing with big 
> mailboxes (for example when indexing or performing a full text 
> search). This and keeping atime consistent isn't useful for cyrus IMAP 
> folders because all is handled with Cyrus' own metadata system.
>
> The explanation here summarizes it well: 
> http://linux.koolsolutions.com/2009/01/30/installing-linux-on-usb-part-4-noatime-and-relatime-mount-options/ 
>
>
> I use relatime,nodiratime as my mount options for /var/spool/imap 
> (because I'm unsure that relatime applies to directories).
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
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