We have the following mounts on the mailhost:

/var/spool (filer1:/vol/v04/mailhost_spool) /var/log (filer1:/vol/v04/mailhost_log) /var/mail (filer1:/vol/v04/mail)

No issues with log or mail, but the queues in /var/spool just crawl at an unacceptable speed, the volume not being to high at all. Right now all queues are repointed to local disk.

While speed for the queues is inacceptable the other qtrees on the same volume and filer work flawlessly and fast.

- mo

-----Original Message----- From: Stefan Funke [mailto:bundy@arcor-ip.de] Sent: 28 April 2004 11:40 To: Willers, Moritz Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: REQ: Survey: Maildir on Netapp Filers

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:29:31 +0100 moritz.willers@ubs.com wrote:

Has anyone tried running the sendmail *spool* dir on a filer?

we tried and failed miserably, but didn't have time to investigate.

I think sendmail and traditional spool (all mails in one file) will be a mess over NFS. We have no trouble with postfix/maildrop spool on NFS. The spool is separated over several filers, volumes and qtrees for performance reasons. (a few hundred million small files are the best performance killers you can get ;-)