[Dovecot] NFS mail storage

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 18:40 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:

> Since maildir is IOPS heavy and NFS/GFS/OCFS don't seem to like high
> IOPS workloads that make heavy use of locking, mbox becomes very
> attractive due to it's very low IOPS demands.  If you can live with the
> folder tree limitations of mbox, along with a higher probably of mailbox
> file corruption, mbox is likely the best format for NFS/GFS/OCFS.

You shouldn't equate NFS with GFS/OCFS. They have very little in common.
The above is more or less true for GFS/OCFS, but definitely not NFS.