configuration option for db-files in a different path than mailboxes?

[Michael Menge]

Quoting Ingo Steuwer <steuwer at univention.de>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm in building a test-environment where I'd like to setup my cyrus  
> mail spoll
> (/var/spool/cyrus/mail) on a NFS filesystem. I know that locking issues in
> NFSv3 prevent a clean mail delivery with cyrus and want to give NFSv4 a try.
>
> My suspect from older tests was, that the handling of cyrus.index and
> other "database"-files (cyrus.cache, cyrus.header, cyrus.squat) isn't
> possible on NFSv3. Beside changing the NFS version, I thougt of an option
> where those files are stored on a different (non-NFS) partition.

You have to keep them in sync across your servers and mailstorage.
So i would not use it for active/active usage.

> Does anybody know about a way to configure the path of those files? Or are
> there ways to move them after creation?

Have a look at metapartition-name in the imapd.conf manpage
and migrate-metadata in the toold directory


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