[Dovecot] Scalability plans: Abstract out filesystem and make it someone else's problem

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 09:38 -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> > Why don't queue directories and clusters mix well?  Is this a performance
> > issue only, or something worse?
> > 
> 
> It depends on the locking scheme used by the filesystem. Working queue
> directories (the ones where stuff comes and goes rapidly) is best suited
> for a local FS anyway.

And when a server and its disk dies, the emails get lost :(

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