[Dovecot] NFS mail storage

[Noel Butler]

On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 18:40 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:


> Since maildir is IOPS heavy and NFS/GFS/OCFS don't seem to like high
> IOPS workloads that make heavy use of locking, mbox becomes very
> attractive due to it's very low IOPS demands.  If you can live with the
> folder tree limitations of mbox, along with a higher probably of mailbox
> file corruption, mbox is likely the best format for NFS/GFS/OCFS.
> 


I don't believe I just read that.


Timo I will bite my tongue, look at that the sky today is purple

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