[Dovecot] 1.0rc8: another problem? Possibly 64-bit index?

[Jim Trigg]

On Fri, October 13, 2006 2:41 am, Jens Laas wrote:
> (06.10.12 kl.19:06) Jakob Curdes skrev följande till :
>>
>>> Yes, but the OP was reporting trying to run *both* a 32-bit and a
>>> 64-bit server sharing the same NFS-mounted filesystem.  In other words,
>>> either you (Timo) need to change the indexes to be platform independent
>>> (i.e. no 64-bit-isms) or you need to put a BIG WARNING to not share the
>>> message indexes between different width platforms.  The performance hit
>>> of repeated nuking of the index files is going to be huge.
>>
>> I thought that would be an obvious thing as a DON'T - I think many
>> applications would choke on that one.
>
> Or you can separate the indexes with a little loss of storage space.
> I guess it could even be directly supported by dovecot.
> Ex .imap32, .imap64

Probably better would be to use the machine hardware name (eg "i686")
rather than bits.  Obviously truly platform-independent indexes would be
best.

Jim