[Dovecot] Dovecot and Lustre FS

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 09:59 +0100, Christian Gregoire wrote:

> Right now, I'm using Exim and a customized version of an old (10 years
> old) Atmail POP3 server written in Perl, with ~10000 mailboxes located
> on a Lustre file system. So far so good.
> 
> Though, I plan to migrate from Atmail to Dovecot, to provide our
> customers with IMAP support. Has anyone any experience with Dovecot on
> Lustre FS ?

If there's just one Dovecot server accessing mails, there shouldn't be
any problems. If there are more, you should read
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/SharedDisk and stress test the
same mailbox at the same time from 2+ servers using
http://imapwiki.org/ImapTest