[Dovecot] lock file on embedded device

[Bill Cole]

At 6:45 PM +0100 3/21/07, burolib wrote:
>Hi.
>
>That's my first post. it's driving me crazy.
>
>I'm trying to get dovecot working with vpopmail on Openwrt, an 
>embedded linux-like OS for some routers . So actually my aim looks 
>like get dovecot working with little hardware resources (32 MB of 
>Ram, 8 MB of disk mem.)
[...]
>By the way my file system is a jffs, and my disk has 500K left.
>
>I will appreciate any tips.


Don't do this.

Really, a device with 500k free disk space and no swap is no place to 
be running an IMAP server. A system using flash memory for "disk" is 
not suitable as a mail store, because that is a write-intensive 
application and you will wear out the flash.




-- 
Bill Cole
bill at scconsult.com