Re: [Dovecot] lock file on embedded device

At 6:45 PM +0100 3/21/07, burolib wrote:

Hi.

That's my first post. it's driving me crazy.

I'm trying to get dovecot working with vpopmail on Openwrt, an embedded linux-like OS for some routers . So actually my aim looks like get dovecot working with little hardware resources (32 MB of Ram, 8 MB of disk mem.) [...] By the way my file system is a jffs, and my disk has 500K left.

I will appreciate any tips.

Don't do this.

Really, a device with 500k free disk space and no swap is no place to be running an IMAP server. A system using flash memory for "disk" is not suitable as a mail store, because that is a write-intensive application and you will wear out the flash.

-- Bill Cole bill@scconsult.com