[Dovecot] Maildir over NFS

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 08:02 -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> 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.

Ah, I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for adding that.

	Bernd
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