Timo Sirainen writes:
Then there are also people who would want to run Dovecot on their laptop and have it synchronize with the main server whenever network connection is available.
YES!
I had not thought of that, but that would be killer.. although that would be multi-master which I think would be really difficult to implement.. :-(
I was hoping to find an existing global lock manager. I think there exist some. If not, then I'll have to spend some more time thinking about it. Anyway everyone don't want to use AFS, so I can't rely on it :)
It is not that people dont want.. it is that some times they can't. For example where I work we are keeping a close eye on Gluster, but it currently does not work in FreeBSD. Some of the other distrbibuted filesystems are either not as mature in FreeBSD or are non existent.