FW: [Dovecot] Is dovecot NFS safe?

[Maikel Verheijen]

This was ment for the list :)

Sorry Stuart, for the double email...

Regards,


Maikel.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maikel Verheijen 
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 3:40 PM
> To: 'Stuart Henderson'
> Subject: RE: [Dovecot] Is dovecot NFS safe?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Be aware that also your .subscriptions file and .customflags 
> are not nfs safe (yet) in dovecot-0.99.10.
> 
> I know Timo is working on that though :)
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Maikel Verheijen.
> 
> Ps: I have a "crude" patch to make .subscriptions and 
> .customflags nfs aware (I can not guarentee it is nfs safe ;-).
>     My own setup runs on nfs with the indexes in memory.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stuart Henderson [mailto:stu at spacehopper.org]
> > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 2:13 PM
> > To: Adam Shand; dovecot at procontrol.fi
> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Is dovecot NFS safe?
> > 
> > 
> > > I'm migrating our mailserver from cyrus 2.0 to Postfix 
> and Dovecot.
> > >
> > > We're using maildirs delivered to /var/maildir, which is
> > mounted via
> > > NFS from a Netapp.  My understanding was that maildir was
> > completely
> > > happy in an NFS environment but I've seen a couple messages here
> > > recently which mention the dovecot index files not being NFS safe.
> > >
> > > Are their any caveats or gotcha's that I need to be aware of?
> > 
> > You'll probably want to keep them in memory or on local disk. See
> > <http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/doc/nfs.txt> for more information - 
> > default_mail_env needs either ":INDEX=/local/path/to/indexes/%u" or 
> > ":INDEX=MEMORY", all machines accessing the mailstore should have 
> > sync'd clocks, and all imap servers need separate hostnames.
> > 
> > --Stu
> > 
> 
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