21 Jun
2012
21 Jun
'12
10:50 a.m.
On 6/20/2012 10:50 AM, Romer Ventura wrote:
Has anyone used GlusterFS as storage file system for dovecot or any other email system?
I have not, but can tell you from experience and education that distributed filesystems don't work well with transactional workloads such as IMAP and SMTP. The two reasons are high latency and problems with file locking, as Timo mentioned.
Instead of asking if anyone here has tried to use GlusterFS, why not describe your situation and ask for advice on a solution? That usually works much better, and you gain valuable insight.
-- Stan