[Dovecot] Maildir over NFS

[Seth Mattinen]

On 8/9/10 5:31 AM, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 12:18 +0200, Edgar Fuß wrote:
>>> The NFS server sits in user space.
>> Oops? I don't know what Linux does, but with BSD, it has always been in-kernel.
> 
> Historically there was a user-space NFS-daemon (and can very probably be
> found via Google today).
> Actually there are stories about people using it because if you export
> filesystems via a user-space NFS daemon, you can change the mounting
> below without affecting the clients for NFS-v3.
> 
> But the kernel has a NFS-server since years and all (somewhat common)
> distributions use it per default.
> 


Debian still gives you a choice with packages nfs-user-server and
nfs-kernel-server.

~Seth