[Dovecot] Best way to change index location on mdbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On 20.5.2012, at 1.23, Patrick Westenberg wrote:

> Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> 
>> No. Director is simply about making sure that more than one server won't access the same user's mailbox simultaneously. I'm not recommending per-backend index files to any kind of setups. Perhaps the NFS wiki page should be changed also.
> 
> So using a director it should be possible to have my mailstore on a Ext3/4 filesystem? I won't need a cluster filesystem or NFS?

Using a regular proxy with permanent user assignments you can distribute your mailboxes to a bunch of ext3/4 fs servers.

Using a director you get temporary user assignments and you need a clusterfs/NFS.