[Dovecot] 1.0rc8: another problem? Possibly 64-bit index?

[Jens Laas]

(06.10.12 kl.19:06) Jakob Curdes skrev följande till :

>
>> Yes, but the OP was reporting trying to run *both* a 32-bit and a 64-bit 
>> server sharing the same NFS-mounted filesystem.  In other words, either you 
>> (Timo) need to change the indexes to be platform independent (i.e. no 
>> 64-bit-isms) or you need to put a BIG WARNING to not share the message 
>> indexes between different width platforms.  The performance hit of repeated 
>> nuking of the index files is going to be huge.
>
> I thought that would be an obvious thing as a DON'T - I think many 
> applications would choke on that one.

Or you can separate the indexes with a little loss of storage space.
I guess it could even be directly supported by dovecot.
Ex .imap32, .imap64

Cheers,
Jens

>
> Yours, JC
>

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