newfs options for large mail server (Maildir)

[Troy Settle]

I've got about 50 domains with about 4500 accounts.  4200 of those are
in my primary domain.  Here's my old server:

Filesystem      Size   Used  Avail Capacity iused    ifree %iused
Mounted on
oldmail:/export  42G   6.5G    32G    17%  257068 10741330    2%   /mnt

And here's my new server (I think I went overboard on the inodes on this
one):

/dev/da1s1e      91G   4.1G    80G     5%  255756 95246066    0%   /var2

HTH,

--
  Troy Settle
  Pulaski Networks
  http://www.psknet.com
  540.994.4254 ~ 866.477.5638
  Pulaski Chamber 2002 Small Business Of The Year
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of spork
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 10:39 PM
> To: freebsd-isp at freebsd.org
> Subject: newfs options for large mail server (Maildir)
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think the last time I had to think about this was when everyone ran
> their own news server and you had to tweak the filesystem to make INN
> perform acceptably...
> 
> I'm migrating about 3,000 accounts to a new machine that will 
> be running
> qmail/vpopmail, so there will be a directory for each domain, 
> each user,
> each user's mailbox, etc. and since it's all Maildir instead 
> of spools,
> there will be a ton of files.  Hopefully the box will grow to a few
> thousand more boxes if we're lucky.
> 
> How should I go about determining the number of inodes and 
> the blocksize?
> Does anyone have any general pointers?  So far I've been 
> looking at some
> postings by Joe Greco from the really old days and just 
> treating this the
> same way I would have treated a news server, but I'd 
> appreciate some more
> specific feedback from people running a similar 
> configuration.  Even some
> "df -i's" of similarly-sized boxes would give me a good start.
> 
> Any input at all is welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Charles
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