Daniel L. Miller wrote:
I have the source mail spools on NFS as well. Just asking - not looking for a flame war. I had a miserable time
Justin McAleer wrote: trying to get NFS working with just my simple LAN - I've had much better results via Samba with either SMBFS or CIFS. Off-topic - but can I ask why you're using NFS?
Going back to my first mail, the long and short of it is:
"However, we plan to run a cluster of these servers anyway, where we will keep domains/accounts going to a particular server but fail over to one of the others in case of an outage."
We have a new Netapp, and have been running our email off NFS for years without problems. To be fair, we haven't needed shared storage before, but we spent a lot of money on reliable storage, so there the data stayed. What sort of problems have you run into? So far in my dovecot testing I haven't had any issues either.
We did try a few clustered filesystems on a SAN mount instead, but the results were, at best, poor.