[Dovecot] AIXPluginsSupport and AIX FS qoutas

[Ralf Becker]

Hello Stewart,

Stewart Dean schrieb am 25.04.2007 21:26:
> I'm running AIXV5.3 at the latest level, compiling using the IBM C for
> AIX V6.0 compiler and building/running Dovecot at V1.0/mbox under test
> usage by our IT department right now.  We have a legacy UWIMAP that is
> currently the production IMAP service.

The same here:
- AIX 5.2,
- xlC 6,
- uwimap and qpopper in production and
- dovecot for testing.

> I am cleaning up on some left-over loose ends, one of them being
> quotas/plugins, and I have some questions about your page with
> AIXPluginsSupport on which I'd appreciate your assistance and comments.
> 
> 1) I use AIX filesystem quota on the Inbox and folders, though the
> indices are in a separate un-quota-ed filesystem.. a) Do you use Dovecot
> with AIX FS quotaing or know of someone with experience?
> b) What do you get out of FS quotaing?  Since the quota with FS quotaing
> is enforced by AIX, what does the FS plugin do that isn't already
> achieved by the OS's function? Do I just get  quota reporting?
> c) If I don't enable quota in Dovecot and let AIX deal with it, are
> there any problems?
> 
No, I'm not using AIS FS quotas nor I've any experience with that, sorry

> 2) A minor point but you invoke configure using bash:
>       bash configure
> Configure is written in sh; can I just leave off the bash, since the
> dovecot-cc script you wrote calls out bash in the first line
> 
You can, but bash is backwards compatible to sh. I'm usually using bash
because of it's performance. You may try this:

# CONFIG_SHELL=bash time bash ./configure

# time ./configure

> 3) I gather you use Gnu gcc; do you know of any problems/benefits with
> using the IBM compiler?
> 

I'm using xlc and dovecot-cc depends on it. I've haven't use gcc on AIX
for years :-)
So in my opinion a common problem with xlc (or better xlc and AIX) is
the shared object handling. Libtool seems to fix most of the problems.
I've mentioned this in
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-March/021247.html

> Thanks in advance........S.
> 

Regards, Ralf

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