[Dovecot] dovecot and AFS

[Frank Cusack]

On February 4, 2010 1:41:52 AM +0200 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On 2.2.2010, at 22.06, Per-Erik Persson wrote:
>
>> Scrolling thru the archives gives me a hint that there might be troubles
>> with AFS together with dovecot and maildir especially the LDA Is this
>> still an issue or should I prepare for spending time to solve it? If
>> someone successfully got it to work in a small or large scale
>> environment I would be happy to know about it.
>
> Problems are probably similar to NFS. The only sure way to avoid issues
> is to make sure that only a single server accesses user's mails at the
> same time.

Unlike NFS, AFS has strong consistency.  So that shouldn't be a problem.

-frank