[Dovecot] NFS rquota support

Cor Bosman cor at xs4all.nl
Tue Aug 7 15:57:42 EEST 2007


> Sorry to be so clueless, but all the activity about rquotad drives me to 
> admit my puzzlement (or ignorance)...
> I run rquotad on my mail server that also runs DC....rquotad is used by 
> the other 3 hosts (a login/FTP server, a mailing list server and a user 
> mgmnt server) that NFS mount the folder and inbox filesystem...which are 
> under filesystem quota on the mail server where they are physically 
> resident.  AFAIK it is not queried on the mail server...after all, 
> filesystem quota is running there.  How/why does DC need/use rquotad?

You can have your mail spool located on an NFS server. In that case the
dovecot server needs to use rquotad to get quota info from the nfs
server.

Cor


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