[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 on email storage

[Brian Kroth]

I just did this:
mkfs.ocfs2 -v -L ocfs2mail -N 8 -T mail /dev/sdb1

The tools happen to choose "-b 4096 -C 4096" for you at that point.

Brian

Sérgio Surkamp <sergio at gruposinternet.com.br> 2009-08-12 12:03:
> Em Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:05:44 +0800
> "Thomas G. Lau" <thomas.lau at ntt.com.hk> escreveu:
> 
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > Anyone using OCFS2 on email storage system ? (postfix/qmail).
> > Wondering if any of you suffer any problem?! Also, what parameter did
> > you tune for email system only? thanks.
> > 
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> Hello Thomas,
> 
> We are using as general propose shared filesystem (email, shared files,
> some web related files, etc...) and the only drawback from a local
> filesystem is that it's a bit slower due to cluster stack.
> 
> About the tuning we have reduced the block size and pre-allocated size
> to reduce the on-disk size, since email messages usually are tiny files
> (lets say about 8K per message).
> 
> Our setup:
> 
> mkfs.ocfs2 -b 4096 -C 4096 -N 4 /dev/sd<X>
> 
> If you plan to use it for a large number of accounts, keep your eye on
> the 32000 sub-directories limitation.
> 
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