what is the recommended max ext4 partition size for a cyrus mailstore?

"lolcatz21 via Info" <[email protected]>
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I understand fastmail uses 1 or 2 terabyte partitions,  but im curious as to why they chose this number?

fsck check times?
filesystem performance degradation?
inode limitations?
fragmentation?
failure isolation?

Also, is LVM recommended  or frowned upon?





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