Re: [Dovecot] Is dovecot NFS safe?

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:11:17 +1200 Adam Shand <adam@personaltelco.net> wrote:

I'm migrating our mailserver from cyrus 2.0 to Postfix and Dovecot.

We're using maildirs delivered to /var/maildir, which is mounted via NFS from a Netapp. My understanding was that maildir was completely happy in an NFS environment but I've seen a couple messages here recently which mention the dovecot index files not being NFS safe.

Are their any caveats or gotcha's that I need to be aware of?

Well, Postfix delivering to Maildir mailboxes is a matter that Wietse isn't particularly fond of. Make sure your mount options are correct in that they provide synchronous link() and rename() semantics.

-- Matthias Andree