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Thanks for the reply Alan... |
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On 2013-04-20 11:33 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> If VMWare gives you a really shitty host driver, then something |
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> really shitty is going to be the best you can achieve. |
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The host is a Dell R515 with the Perc H700. |
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Windows VMs see get an 'LSI Logic SAS', and my gentoo VM gets an 'LSI |
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Logic Parallel' controller. |
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All disks are 15k rpm SAS (6G) drives. |
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> Disks aren't like eg NICs, you can't easily virtualize them and give the |
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> guest exclusive access in the style of para-virtualization (I can't |
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> imagine how that would even be done). |
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> You also didn't mention what mail server you use - implementations vary |
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> a great deal. Gut feel tells me that unless you are dealing with many |
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> 1000s of mails in a short period you won't really need XFS's aggressive |
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> caching. |
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Postfix+dovecot, still debating between maildir or mdbox, leaning toward |
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mdbox. |
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