[Dovecot] Using NFS - which OS would you chose

2 Oct 2006


      Hi,
I'm still looking at a large (under 100,000) user deployment of
Dovecot, with a NetApp NFS server as the back-end storage.
I've read a few remarks about needing the latest NFS patches from
Trond Myklebust to prevent lock-ups.
My management would be happiest with a vendor-supported distribution
(and especially Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9 or 10).  We will be
running on an x86 platform.
Under these circumstances, which operating system/distribution
would you choose?  And why?
Suse SLES9
OpenSuse
Debian
RedHat
FreeBSD
Solaris_x86
Nexenta (www.nexenta.org)
Many thanks for your thoughts/war stories.
Jonathan.