[Dovecot] Linux, Maildir over NFS, Locking problems

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 16:33 -0700, Terrence Martin wrote:
> I grabbed the latest stable and yes it works better.
> 
> I actually left these
> 
> mmap_disable = yes
> lock_method = dotlock
> 
> With the default, presumbly no and fcntl respective? So far it works. 
> Should I change it anyway?

Wonder why, since your error message was about fcntl locking last time.
Unless you've put index files in local disk instead of NFS? Then the
default settings are fine.

If you're using multiple computers, you could try having indexes in NFS
as well to improve performance, then those settings are required. But
it's not as stable..

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